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

Do you play a musical instrument?

He is playing music.

Play the Humppa!

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

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

MacMaster Leahy play the fiddle

Are you able to play organ?

You can go to a concert and hear guitars jamming.

I play in a band.

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

Can you play the key of C minor?

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

Since then, I've never looked back.

And you're playing a painful sound.

Kaki King rocks out to Pink Noise

I'm going to play a piece of music for you.

She plays the violin very well.

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

At the beginning of the show, for example, Zero deejays dream and reality.

I made my own faces, and had a company fabricate them, and the players follow these scores.

And Gould's specialty was playing Bach.

You should be a one buttock player.

I can hardly bark out instructions while we're playing.

You know, what's his metaphor for performance?

I'm being told which part of the stick to use.

David Holt plays mountain music

Raul Midon plays Peace on Earth

We want to play you one more selection.

And the point, the essential nature, of musical performance is to produce excellent music.

And I'll perform just an excerpt of Aphasia for you here. Okay?

This is the true experience of a live concert.

We know that to be able to come on the bandstand and play music is a blessing.

I recognized some of the tunes that Tom played.

Some of my pieces have these kind of weird theatric elements, and I often perform them. I want to show you a clip from a piece called Echolalia.

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

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.

And not long after I got my cochlear implant, I started learning how to play piano.

And they'd say, Play that part again.

But it's the best music making, like this.

I didn't realize there was going to be a little music before.

So we're gonna play something together anyway.