Of the now-vanished panels, Mrs. Gordon hazily recalls a giant, languorous woman stretched the length of one wall, and a multifigure composition on the other.
"Classical composition", on the other hand - here not just Bach but also the Beatles or Blue - is like engineering.
This is inarguably healthy not only for jazz appreciation, but also for any understanding of modern composition on the whole.
If Burnside disguises formidable poetic technique by composition "on the breath", Mimi Khalvati is unafraid to show its workings.
When he met Harrison, in 1966, Shankar knew very little of the Beatles' music: he hadn't heard Norwegian Wood, Harrison's first attempt at composition on the sitar.
Homework that day was a composition on the match; minimum two and half pages and likely to be distributed among the parents.
Davis, usually economical with a compliment, said Russell taught him most of what he knew about composition on the strength of the Lydian concept.
He said that "computer performance of music was born in 1957 when an IBM 704 played a 17-second composition on the Music I program, which I wrote".
Cale exhibited an aptitude for composition on the viola and the piano, and left Wales to take music courses at the University of London's Goldsmiths College.
In six months he is conducting a symphony orchestra performance of his original composition on the Great Lawn in Central Park.
And it concluded a weeklong New Orleans residency by Mr. Marsalis and his organization, which then took the composition on the road before bringing it home this week.
