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 ...

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 ...

Part of the BBC Proms.’The Enigma I will not explain – its “dark saying” must be left unguessed…’ So wrote Edward Elgar of his career-making ‘Enigma’ Variations. What’s not in question, however, is ...

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 ...