To abstract the content, all initial themes will be labelled with codes.
Steve Kaplan became music director starting with the premiere of the 15th syndicated season in 1997, and continued to serve as such until he was killed in a plane crash in 2003; his initial theme was a remix of "Changing Keys", but by the 18th syndicated season, he had replaced it with a composition of his own, which was titled "Happy Wheels".
Chater described its initial theme as a love story, "an international search for love from country to country.
Perhaps most important, the initial theme of a midlife crisis -- which Mr. Dreyfuss wanted because he said he identified with it -- is also being overhauled.
The subtitle, "Tansman Episodes," invokes the Polish-born twentieth-century composer Alexandre Tansman; the initial theme, heavy on the notes A, E, and E-flat, is derived from the letters of Tansman's name.
The initial theme song featured an illustration of Phineas and Ferb, wearing their archeologist hats, discovering Candace, dressed in raggy toilet paper.
The first movement begins with violas softly oscillating between the C and A notes; after four bars of the single, minimally-inflected line, a pair of bassoons enters with the initial theme.
Bombast erupts midway through, after which the initial theme resumes, warped with dissonances and crowned with a funereal trumpet solo (played eloquently here by Janis Porietis).
After the initial theme Ellington and Strayhorn move to blues tonality.
The title and initial theme of Xanadu were actually inspired by the film Citizen Kane.
Tony took my initial theme concept (I'd been thinking we could collaborate on a weekday puzzle) and dreamed big with it.
