It was while the concept was ending its long period of gestation that Buntine delivered a daring challenge – "I was foolish enough to say: 'If you find me a stadium, I'll create a competition'".
And even in a city where that vividly pictorial Handel classic is interpreted in a rich variety of styles, this year's first major entry was a daring challenge to the current orthodoxy, which places the highest value on readings by period-instrument ensembles and chamber choirs.
Guaidó, a 35-year-old former student leader and head of Venezuela's opposition-run national assembly, has been in the forefront of a renewed attempt to force Maduro from power since last week when he declared himself Venezuela's rightful interim president in a daring challenge to the incumbent.
Telling the story of Fr Rodrigues, a Portuguese Jesuit who follows his missionary vocation to Japan at a time of violent religious persecution, Silence is a compelling historical fiction, a potent distillation of the paradoxes and ambiguities of faith and, from a Christian author, a daring challenge to religious orthodoxy.
A latter-day example is Nigel Farage, head of the anti-EU UKIP party, who today threw down the gauntlet in a daring challenge to Europe's unpopular continent-wide free market in labor.
Together the pieces also provided a daring challenge for the Pasadena Symphony.
Ms. Hossaini explained: "UNICEF and WHO took a bold step to conduct a nationwide immunization campaign in Somalia – a daring challenge, both in terms of logistics as well as in the face of great insecurity, in a fragmented society.
She also appeared onstage in daring costumes, challenging traditional concepts of stage propriety and classical art.
But what's beyond debate is the enduring appeal of the daring criminal challenging the establishment with criminal endeavour.
But even as he courted a mass audience, and "Out of Sight" helped to turn George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez into movie stars, Mr. Soderbergh continued to make formally daring, intellectually challenging films like "Schizopolis" in 1996 and "The Limey" last year.
