“It seems to me I’ve heard that song before,” the movie score warbles. “It’s from an old familiar score. I know it well, that melody.” So goes the theme to Woody Allen’s “Hannah and Her Sisters.” But ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro catches up with Brazilian composer and pianist André Mehmari, who improvised a nearly 30-minute version of the All Things Considered theme song. The Brazilian composer and pianist ...

Stop for a moment and listen. You hear the theme, laid out clearly and efficiently. Then you hear what the composer did with it, and did to it, again and again and again. “Theme and variations,” they ...

In honor of the 250th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birth, his music is being performed around the globe. A controversial new production of an unfinished opera Mozart wrote when he was 23, ...

HIS theme is the development of an artist; his variations are the impact upon an artist by life. Suppose a sculptor, assistant to Phidias, who had worked on the frieze of the Parthenon and known the ...