And this is a song that has a kind of a Celtic feel.

And this year I composed a Romantic style.

This is the room that Bach wrote some of his music for. This is the organ.

What you just heard are the interactions of barometric pressure, wind and temperature readings that were recorded of Hurricane Noel in 2007.

It's as if some new hit style had completely wiped out the old fashioned style before, and with no golden oldies stations.

And then, when the piece takes somewhat of a solified form solidified, excuse me solidified form, you're supposed to actually polish the piece, polish the details, and then polish the overall performance of the composition.

Microphones enabled singers, in particular, and musicians and composers, to completely change the kind of music that they were writing.

This practice is considered by some to dilute the influence of shareholders, and to be a distortion of the connection between investment risk and the decision making process.

I've been working on my new record and I've never played these songs for anybody except the microphone.

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

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.

In the 10th century, little squiggles were used just to indicate the general shape of the tune.

It's just a curve without inflection.

It's called Abegg Variations, by Robert Schumann, a German 19th century composer.

And it describes how he feels when composing is going well.

At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay. At her feet he bowed, he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay. At her feet he bowed, he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

A curve's a curve, a plane's a plane, and the two won't mix.

Advocates of the one share one vote approach view any deviation from this approach as an undesirable distortion of the connection between investment risk and the decision making process.

And we want to play a little piece for you by one of the most important composers of America.

Today's hit single is not last year's hit single.

Chongqing is a hilly city with winding streets.

That's Clair de Lune.

So he wants fine motor control flex at the wrist, flex at the elbow, abduct and flex at the shoulder.

To see why, note that being long and selling short in the stock market has an asymmetric risk reward profile. Losing on a long position reduces one s risk exposure, while losing on a short position increases it, so one can be more patient being long and wrong than being short and wrong.

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River Suzhou is Shanghai's mother river twisting and turning, it stretches across and flows through the city center.

One of my heroes is songwriter, Ally Willis, who just wrote The Color Purple and has been an R and rhythm and blues writer, and this is what she said about where songwriting's going.

Whereas nature tends to be small, and curved, and it bends and twists, and has legs instead, and appendages, and has many muscles and many, many sensors.

But if you take a lens, like that, this line is ack, ack, ack, ack, ack. Like that.

There's a piece by a composer, an American composer called John Cage.

Don't worry about tunes. Take a tune, sing high when they sing low, sing fast when they sing slow, and you've got a new tune.

How do I compose?

I baked cookies.

It's all the anthems and dance crazes and ballads and marches.

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

For example, there are different colors and each color gets a different type of singing pop, country and western, opera, jazz and you just have to be consistent with that color.

And the thing about this piece that's so special if you see it behind me it's not notated in any way.

And, as I said, the way the shape twists the directional along which way the shape is twisting as it moves over this curved surface is what the elementary particles are, themselves.