The Kolot Ensemble closed the program with Clarice Assad's "Cirandada, Clássicas Cantigas" (2010), a vibrant, gear-shifting fantasy on Brazilian melodies and dance rhythms.
To that end, he created a uniquely personal style, weaving labyrinthine spirals of vibrant, exotic color around fantasy images that stared out through blank, almond-shaped eyes.
When Dorothy wakes up, it's to the drab, black-and-white reality of the gritty Kansas existence with which she had been so dissatisfied at the beginning of her remarkable journey into fantasy, into vibrant color; what she famously learns from that exposure to radical otherness is, in fact, that "there's no place like home".
Tod Machover's Re-Structures for two pianos and electronics used material from Boulez's piano music of the 1950s to re-cast the music in a vibrant yet reverent electro-acoustic fantasy.
Another recording in the Gould Edition offers the pianist in vibrant interpretations of the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, the "Italian Concerto" and, most notably, several seldom-heard works, including three fantasies, two fugues on themes by Albinoni, and the "Aria Variata Alla Maniera Italiana," a theme with 10 variations (Sony Classical SMK 52620).
But listening to snippets of Brahms and Schubert waft through sun-dappled trees one afternoon, a critic had the sense that at Marlboro such utopian fantasies remain a vibrant reality.
For a long time, many of us have lived cloaked in the fantasy that Brunswick, the vibrant Melbourne suburb with some of the best bakeries and op-shops in the city, was still semi-affordable.
Gameplay is split between both worlds, with "our" world feeling linear and constrained, restricted to a top-down isometric view, while the fantasy world is bold and vibrant, full of life but also danger.
Of the series, he said they "pushed the fairytale side of it" as Doctor Who "now has to be the most fantastical of the fantasy shows" to be more vibrant and "bonkers" than any other fantastical show.
