A work may be made on a computer say, a musical work composed with Sibelius or a play written in Microsoft Word and yet meant for apprehension in a non-digital format say, performance on traditional musical instruments or enactment on stage.
There are also semi-fakes, like works composed of authentic art with more recent or faked additions.
Tomorrow evening the Ensemble for Early Music offers a program called "Pilgrimage: Cathedrals and Abbeys of Europe," with works composed in Paris; Limoges, France and Santiagoo de Compostela, Spain, as well as works by the great abbess-composer Hildegarde of Bingen.
On Saturday night a large crowd, mostly families with curious youngsters, went to the Winter Garden in the World Financial Center to hear a free Toy Symphony concert with works composed for and by children.
These lofty questions were the subject of Thursday night's concert by the Orchestra of St . Lukes at Carnegie Hall, a program of four works composed between 1939 and 2003 interspersed with eloquently understated readings by the actor Sam Waterston of poems and texts by Brecht, Virgil, Auden and others.
His first spots, which ran here in 1934, were simply signed "Martin," but his covers and cartoons bore the more familiar signature C.E.M. Charlie worked confidently in a wide variety of styles, even though he was self-taught; his most characteristic work was composed with an almost classical sense of balance and executed in a flat, decorative manner, using a muted, sometimes ethereal palette.
One should remark that the nanosystems studied in the present work are composed with more than 5,000 atoms and an analysis based on ab initio methods of molecular dynamics should be prohibited.
The musical program included Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man," Dvorak's "New World" symphony and "My Name Is Citizen Soldier," a commissioned work composed by Frank Proto with words by the poet and playwright John Chenault.
Beethoven based that genial four-movement work — composed around 1805, with the piano in a central role — on his Opus 103 Wind Octet and Opus 4 String Quintet, itself an arrangement of the octet.
The work, composed by Peter Boyer with lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, will receive additional performances May 19 through 22 and July 3 and 4. It will also be performed on July 18 at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass., with Alec Baldwin narrating, and on Aug. 1 at the Hyannis Village Green in Hyannis, Mass., where it will be narrated by Chris Cooper.
