At the time, computers were too slow to play compositions in "real time".
A violinist, Matt Glazer, and a pianist, Bevan Manson, will play compositions by George Gershwin and Duke Ellington, along with jazz improvisations on American folk tunes.
This year, he's adding a different twist: a string orchestra will play compositions by American composers, including Copland and Bernstein, then join Mr. Guthrie.
CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH Kathleen Healy-Wedsworth and James S. Little will play compositions for four hands and four feet on the piano, harpischord and organ.
In some cities, like Wichita, that means sending a classical pianist into a distillery to play compositions of Radiohead.
I compose original music on my computer and in my live show I play compositions that are all mine.
More will come for the A-list piano bar, which will play compositions by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, Hans Zimmer, and Massive Attack.
The emergence of the synthesizer, and the resulting reliance on keyboard improvisation instead of serious, beyond-what-your-fingers-can-play composition, for example.
Elliott Sharp, the composer and bandleader, plays compositions for solo acoustic guitar from his coming album "The Velocity of Hue" (Emanem), pulling together blues and raga, meditation and twang.
The trio A.C.S. — Geri Allen on piano, Teri Lyne Carrington on drums and Esperanza Spalding on bass — played compositions by Mr. Shorter more straightforwardly, but with their own outlook.
He plays compositions by a street musician from Seattle, a Latina jazz singer fluent in four languages and a band from Montana that plays a cockeyed mix of bluegrass and rap.
