In the grand tapestry of Western tonal music, the “theme and variations” form stands out as one of the most flexible yet profoundly expressive frameworks available to a composer. At its heart lies a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Anthony Brandt, a musicologist whose work focuses on music cognition, talks about what this musical form and how human beings approach open-ended ...

The Broadway, Hollywood and TV composer on the music that inspired him in his career We didn’t have a piano in our house – my father was a New York City taxi driver and my mother a secretary, but both ...