Some, like Ms. Bright, thought the celebrations excessive.
MOUNT KISCO Merestead A Chinese Harvest Moon Celebration, featuring Bright Sheng.
Antiphonal choruses, gong pieces and a choral harvest celebration in bright major chords complete the album.
There are just two moments of straight-up, undiluted celebration here: "Bright Lights Bigger City", a perfectly serviceable ode to the joys of Saturday nights on the town; and "Satisfied", which Tom Jones in his prime might have deemed unacceptably exuberant.
As it was, their long, lusty cheers floated into the bright blue skies in celebration of Great Britain's 16th gold medal at these lovely London Olympics, and one of the most convincing.
But for Helen Andreassen, a 21-year-old aspiring politician, a celebration of bright futures became something horrifyingly different when she and her friends jumped from a second-story window to escape the bullets of a man who was hunting them specifically because of their politics.
Three of the daily soups are standards: harvest celebration, a bright orangey concoction of puréed butternut squash, sweet potato, carrot and apple that is the essence of autumn; Tuscan tomato soup, thick enough to be used as a pasta sauce; and chicken and dumpling, a creamy stew that looks like the inside of a homemade chicken pot pie.
The ICA's Ibiza: Moments in Love exhibition, a bright, brash poster heavy celebration of the island's early days as a party destination, was a very different beast from Jeremy Deller's Tate Modern hung The History of the World (an enlarged spider diagram that maps out the cultural route from brass bands to acid house via advance capitalism, the KLF, and Castlemorton).
The block party outside an East Harlem housing complex could easily have seemed like an ordinary celebration on a bright summer weekend day.
ISTANBUL — Before emerging into the bright colors of Ahmet Gunestekin's celebration of the diversity of Anatolian cultures, visitors to his exhibition step into the darkness of mourning for its victims.
