Mr. Levin also makes a convincing case for a fugal "Amen" at the end of the Lacrimosa that features arresting chromatic lines and vivid brass accents.
But its language advances the game several paces: the bright, early Baroque harmonic accent, still vivid in the Tunder, is beginning to fade here.
Covered in vivid graffiti and accented with metal sculptures, Metelkova City (Masarykova Cesta 24; metelkovamesto.org) attracts a free-spirited crowd.
The 7500 has polished black exterior that is spliced with vivid, interchangeable color accents.
Shot verite-style on a miniscule budget, this trim little noir delivers skillfully paced, edge-of-your-seat entertainment, accented by vivid characterizations (Elisha Cook and Marie Windsor stand out as a wildly dysfunctional couple).
And this is not in the Blade Runner neon-lit dark streets sense, but the actual clean, white-green forms of the city by day and it's accents of vivid madness.
Gangster films were already in vogue, thanks to the success of Josef von Sternberg's "Underworld" (1927), but they flourished when sound introduced the sensational elements of chattering machine guns, screaming tires and, most important, the varied timbres of contemporary American speech, bursting with vivid idioms ("Aw, go slip on the ice!") and filtered through every accent known to man.
Since Uchida produces her glowing sounds on a modern Steinway, volume and accents are smoothed away from the extremes, leaving Steinberg to inject some vivid colors and risky phrasings.
Amid this sober coloration splashes of yellow and pink abound, and vivid blues and emerald greens, all tempered by the many snowdrop gaps of unpainted canvas, like floral accents in an English garden.
