"A musical mystery. Sir Edward Elgar's 'Enigma Variations' have confounded music scholars and music fans since its premiere. Elgar tells us that the theme is never actually played during the piece. So ...

It is the musical puzzle that has seen Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, the works of Shakespeare and even the mathematical formula for Pi suggested as possible answers. But now a respected art critic has ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. From a single melody, Elgar cleverly created 14 different variations capturing ...

The Central Oregon Symphony’s Winter Concert this weekend at Caldera High School features the year’s Young Artist Competition winners. The competition is held each December, and because of the ...

Savvy classical music fans know that there are 14 musical caricatures in Edward Elgar’s famous “Enigma Variations,” one of the greatest of English orchestral compositions. But on Saturday evening and ...

Everyone, it seems, needs to have an “artist-in-residence” these days. Though lofty, the title, as interpreted in recent seasons by the Grant Park Music Festival and the Chicago Symphony, tends to ...

Stephen Johnson explores Elgar's "Enigma Variations", a series of 13 musical sketches of the composer's friends which concludes with a representation of Elgar himself. The theme of the variations was ...

Hear the full performance of Elgar's piece by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Rafael Payare. After creating a theme based on his own personality, Elgar developed 14 variations that act as ...

Seven Days Walking: Day One is Einaudi's first instalment of a seven-step album release that will take place across the next seven months. He will be releasing a new album every month, each one ...