Jim accompanied her on the piano.

She accompanied me on the piano.

I accompanied her on the piano.

She will accompany me on the piano.

Thankfully, there isn't any audio to go with this.

Afterwards, I played a piano track underneath so that the singers would have something to listen to.

Again, it's noisy. They're playing for dancers.

Imagining a solo cello concert, one would most likely think of Johann Sebastian Bach unaccompanied cello suites.

Thank you. Good evening and welcome to Spot the TED Presenter Who Used to Be a Broadway Accompanist.

Violinist Natalie MacMaster and TED Musical Director Thomas Dolby play Dolby s original song Blue Is a River in this ethereal duet with a little dancing.

Caroline Lavelle plays the cello like a sorceress casting a spell, occasionally hiding behind her wild mane of blond hair as she sings of pastoral themes. She performs Farther than the Sun, backed by Thomas Dolby on keyboards.

And he played his bluegrass style of music, but near the end of the concert, he played the old timing style of banjo picking that came from Africa, along with the banjo.

Helen was calling 'stay in the process, stay in the process'.

Singer songwriter Eddi Reader performs Kiteflyer's Hill, a tender look back at a lost love. With Thomas Dolby on piano.

It's a real experience, not only to learn how to play and listen to rhythms, but to train your musical memory and playing music in a group.

This is actually being performed by Brian McWhorter, who is an extraordinary performer.

So it's unpredictable. We'll paint this palette again.

David Byrne sings the Talking Heads' 1988 hit, Flowers. He's accompanied by Thomas Dolby and string quartet Ethel, who made up the TED2010 house band.

This is when those big forms arose the symphonies, the sonatas, the concertos.

Famous vibraphonist Stefon Harris has recorded at least one balafon solo.

Do you play a musical instrument?

MIDI rhythm station for ALSA

He is playing music.

Play the Humppa!

This is the 1913 Trio performing one of my pieces at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

The Cape Breton piano playing is just awesome. It's very rhythmic and, you'll see it.

I've been playing TED for nearly a decade, and I've very rarely played any new songs of my own.

The whole orchestra is playing.

Caroline Lavelle casts a spell on cello

This still applies to him.

Clarence I would rather be able to play an instrument again than walk.

Thirdly, variation in tempo.

MacMaster Leahy play the fiddle

Are you able to play organ?

For his first studio album release in decades, musical innovator Thomas Dolby has been composing music in the uniquely inspirational setting of a restored life boat. Here he premieres a gorgeous, evocative song from that album about one night with a legend. He's backed by members of the modern string quartet Ethel.

Consider the memory of long temporal sequences of movements, like a pianist playing a Beethoven sonata.

Saxophonists often double on flutes, which have similar fingerings to their primary instruments.

I play in a band.

That's the first time I've ever played it.

They want to get back to slower rhythms.

Can you play the key of C minor?

He said, that's what flutes are for to be played well.

Since then, I've never looked back.

Michael Moschen juggles rhythm and motion

The rhythm can get much smaller.