The art music of southern India, for example, is built on the concept of a string of pieces, each a variation on a given "theme".
I could call a song cycle on a given theme".
As usual, for Levitsky the portrait was merely a delightful performance on a given theme.
A regular feature in Weekend magazine – Your pictures – invites readers to submit their photographs on a given theme each week.
These stories feel as though they had been written fast, one after another, expressing with some urgency a closely related set of variations on a given theme.
Theirs is a "traveling salon" with no host; each episode will feature guests — some writers, some not — discussing two books on a given theme.
Over the years, he has been romanticised as the ultimate child prodigy, and stories abound, many of them from reliable sources, about this astonishing boy wonder who could sit at the keyboard – his feet not reaching the floor – and, with phenomenal facility and taste, play blindfolded, or sight-read even the most difficult music, improvising at great length on any given theme.
Through Yahoo Groups, a service that lets anyone set up an e-mail list on a given theme, more than 150 groups of former employees -- including former workers at a DaimlerChrysler plant in Argentina and ex-teammates from the Toronto Blue Jays -- have started such information exchanges.
Like the stories, the Moth's format is both fluid and highly structured: half a dozen people are asked to tell stories onstage before an audience on a given theme: "War Stories," for example, or "the Seven Deadly Sins" or "Border Patrol: An Evening of Journeys Through Customs".
