The performance is a collection of songs and dances, operas and musical compositions drawn from ancient and modern Chinese culture.

Director John Huston used unusual compositions and camera angles drawn from film noir to create an alienating battlefield environment.

Her repertoire includes original compositions and standards drawn mostly from classic rock, including "Ode to Billie Joe," "A Taste of Honey," and "Black Magic Woman."

And there are hermetic, brightly colored compositions drawn from his forays into Asian imagery and philosophy during the last decades of his life.

It was the landscape of her childhood, a composition drawn from memory.

Mr. Webster's playful semiabstract compositions, painted and drawn with brusque immediacy on small, distressed pieces of paper, include mandalas, crystalline fields, frames within frames, circulating sperms, bodily organs, spirals, glowing discs and other metaphysically suggestive motifs.

It features a collection of songs and instrumental compositions drawn from the ensemble's live repertoire, many of which had been played by NSRO since the beginning.

These paintings often have a seen-before familiarity; their themes include Depositions, bacchanals, Nativity scenes, Last Judgments and numerous Greek myths, portrayed in compositions drawn from Poussin, Piero, Goya and Titian.

These two works show Davis at the height of his powers, but they also show him reprising in expanded and abstracted form a composition first drawn in 1928.

To highlight the utterly alien nature of the unknown life-force, the regular Barry Gray score was replaced by abstract electronic compositions drawn from the music library.