Elgar’s Enigma Variations is one of the greatest pieces of the 19th century – and this is the true story about how it came about. On 21 October 1898, Edward Elgar returned to his wife and their home ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Elgar's Enigma Variations is a sublime piece of musical portraiture, developing the enigmatic melody that gives the work its title into 13 sketches of the composer's friends, signed off with a robust ...

Here's a musical riddle that has kept people guessing for over a century. English composer Edward Elgar's Variations on an Original Theme, ('Enigma') op. 36 is one of England's most beloved musical ...

Jon Robertson conducted one of his favorite pieces of music Saturday night in his next-to-the-last concert as music director of the Redlands Symphony Orchestra. That favorite was Edward Elgar’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pop hitmaker Ed Sheeran says his new album is inspired by his 20th century musical namesake, Edward Elgar. Around the year 1900, Elgar wrote to his publisher Jaeger – known in his musical sketch as ...

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 ...