Obsession and Transcendence: '33 Variations' Opens on Friday Night at Silver Spring Stage by Lennie Magida
It started with a waltz, a seemingly insignificant waltz written by someone who was hardly a musical giant: Anton Diabelli, a music publisher and minor composer in early 19th century Vienna. And it no doubt would have ended there had Diabelli not invited Vienna’s leading composers to compose variations on his little waltz. But he did. […] The post Obsession and Transcendence: ’33 Variations’…