The conference this year took the same theme and posed the question has anything really changed?

A likely explanation is that both composers took the theme from another unknown source.

He said the festival this year had taken the theme of weddings, and Richard invited him to write something appropriate.

"But if you're going to write about somebody, are you going to take his life or just take the theme?"

"It takes the same theme, marital breakdown, but from a different point of view."

They did responsive passages, one taking the main theme, the other the refrains.

He wished for Balsamon, who would have taken the same theme and turned it into something worth hearing.

In the second act, I took the theme of death and created a cemetery which does not appear in the original.

He took the theme one step further by using bottle caps to create much of the adornment.

The 2005 Festival took the theme "What is to be done".