Zdanevich's older brother Kirill (1892-1969) is represented by several items in the exhibition, including holograph letters, a carved wood-block, and a splendid gouache composition (below) of a man waving a red flag.
The movie's prime virtue is its panoply of voices, including interviews with the musicians Hank Jones, Billy Taylor, Carmen Lundy, and Geri Allen (who is also filmed giving a splendid performance of Williams's composition "Lonely Moments"); the historians Gary Giddins, Griffin, and Tammy Kernodle, and her friends Johnnie Garry and Gray Weingarten.
When Rothschild bought it in the 1980s, "Untitled Composition" had a splendid provenance.
The gallery's other treasure is a splendid example of calligraphy in the form of a composition written by the Zen monk Muso Soseki (1275-1351).
Mr. Susa, who teaches composition at the San Francisco Conservatory, received a splendid send-off for his work in 1994, when it was taken up by his neighbors at the San Francisco Opera.
Abby M. Taylor Fine Art exhibited a splendid work by the late abstractionist Robert Arthur Goodnough, whose intricate compositions of small triangular forms are reminiscent of flags, a flock of birds or designs of falling leaves.
In "Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925: How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art," a splendid historical survey at the Museum of Modern Art, the most beautiful work, for me, is "Vertical-Horizontal Composition" (1916), a small, framed wool needlepoint tapestry by Sophie Taeuber-Arp.
Set at the margins of the river bank and in the fine compositions of hanging gardens, the smaller plants of the Narrows showcase the splendid gardening hand of nature.
Eclectic influences on the score include Leos Janacek's "Glagolitic Mass", Mozart's "Requiem", "The Nine Splendid Stags" from Béla Bartók, Edvard Grieg's "Arabian Dance" for the theater play Peer Gynt, and compositions by Sergei Prokofiev.
