What's most interesting is the way artists play with traditional forms, sometimes almost obscuring them without abandoning them, as in the case of calligraphy, which finds some fantastic variations here (Cotter).
During a performance of "Don Quixote: Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character," he highlighted the theatrical elements with colorful detail, aptly conveying the changing moods and scenes of the don's adventures.
For the story's first filming, as a 1947 Danny Kaye vehicle, Mitty became a henpecked fiancé, the butt of his betrothed, of his future mother-in-law, of his own mother, of a rival suitor, and of his boss at the mass-market magazine publisher where he worked at contriving ever more fantastic variations on ever more banal themes.
For all its thematic cohesion, it is an unsettling narrative, rambling through a wasteland fugue, a rustic intermezzo, a bit of operatic recitative, a set of fantastic variations on a mundane theme, a giddy presto, a slow movement that never gets started, and, finally, a wrathful finale, which Stravinsky called "a Magyar uprising".
I own the world's most fantastic collection of Goldberg Variations played not on the keyboard.
All the tension and dissonance, the jumpy rhythms, the fantastic experimental fugues and variations, the chromatic storms, the blessed plateaus (the sunlit achievement, once you have got through the storms, as at the end of Opus 109 and Opus 111) — in short, all the fierce complex modernity of Beethoven was lost to me.
"Ealham and Austin would be fantastic bowlers in Twenty20 as variation of pace rather than unadulterated pace is key.
Another example from the group, and a remarkable variation on a fantastic theme, is in the Met collection and on permanent view in the Rockefeller Wing.
The variation of their play was fantastic.
Some people have a fantastic experience, like me, but there is some variation".
