For the assessment of the number of vertebrae, the composed view was reviewed using the image composer of the MRI scanner (syngo MR B17; Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, Germany).
Image: Composer Lou Harrison playing one of his handmade instruments, 1977.
Fattahi is, on the basis of one film, one of the world's most audacious cinematographers and image-composers.
The images of composers and musicians like Paul Robeson, Arturo Toscanini and Mozart; of locales like New Orleans and Harlem; and of music itself are largely the work of American artists.
(This decision may rekindle reactions to Stockhausen's cryptic comment at the time that the attack was "the greatest work of art that is possible in the whole cosmos," an allegorical image, the composer explained, that aroused intense anger. He later apologized).
In one captivating section of this ruminative yet organic work, murky modal oscillating cello riffs and spiraling melodic flights on the flute evoke an image the composer saw on an ancient textile in a museum in Peru, showing birdlike human figures suspended weightlessly.
This is the fate for millions of £20 notes featuring the image of composer Edward Elgar which will no longer have legal tender status after 30 June.
The popular image of this composer as an unwitting visionary — "half genius, half klutz," as the conductor Hans von Bülow once said — developed early on.
In theory a title ups the stakes by proposing an image that the composer must match with fresh, surprising music that avoids any clichés the title may suggest.
The Beethoven Paradigm of production isn't the only hoary Romantic myth that Muhly has set aside; he's also forsaken the image of the composer as solitary, antisocial genius.
Using a bronze casting of Bach's skull (made by the Leipzig anatomist Wilhelm His a century ago), and a portrait painted four years before his death in 1750 at the age of 65 - as well as documents hinting at his health, weight and fondness for beer and schnapps - Wilkinson has created the most definitive image of the composer yet.
