How To Use Concert In A Sentence

IT'S a little disconcerting to walk into a hotel room and find a quintet of young men all wearing slap which is far more expertly applied than your own.
I have been to more than 50 of his concerts over the years and changed my name to Robert George Dylan Willis by deed poll
The work of regulatory agencies was also undermined by budget cuts and a concerted unwillingness to enforce existing regulations.
It sounds good and if it does result in more properly-managed concerts, fairs, festivals and community events being staged in the city's parks it has to be good news.
Initially von Leeb, using troops borrowed from von Bock, was able to mount a concerted attack both on the defensive positions of the southern suburbs and the area north of the main rail line to Moscow, their objective being the historic village now a suburb of Schlüsselburg, right on Lake Ladoga. Deathride

Neither Chout, turned down initially by Diaghilev, nor the piano concerto, rejected comprehensively by its muse Paul Wittgenstein the LPO's soloist was Leon Fleisher, quite banished that impression of mechanical note-spinning. LPO/Jurowski; Betrothal in a Monastery; Psappha ensemble; SCO/Ticciati – review
In many cases, well-qualified songs from musicals, operettas, vaudeville, and revues, as well as variety shows, music hall, and cafe concert, were recruited for use in cabarets.
The concert is this coming Wednesday.
His performance at the concert was well under par.
As such, the set was both heavy on the new material and encore-less, a sort of brilliant means of creating a Pavlovian effect on the assembled concert-goers.
Not incidentally — one of the best 1930s fake-modern piano concerti ever tossed into a film. Proof through the night
Jools Holland is playing an open-air concert near Tunbridge Wells soon.
Chromatic versions of both the Chemnitz concertina and the bandoneon have been made.
He stated once that Castle Howard was probably the first venue to stage outdoor concerts, apart from opera honeypot Glyndebourne, in Sussex.
It has since developed a programme which includes a regular schedule of rehearsals, sectional workshops and concerts.
Thousands logged on to view the live Internet broadcast of the concert.
If the ventral curvature of tail is real, then that, in concert with its extremely narrow scaupulae, suggests that a more appropriate functional analog would be found in arboreal chameleons.
There was also a live concert of indigenous music and a lavish banquet.
The concerto is mostly lightweight with tuttis the more dramatic when they appear.
Subtitling is managed both neatly and completely, except in the concerted passages.
The concert footage, captured in color, is bright and brassy, and even with all the fancy lighting and video backdrops, the transfer never resorts to flaring or bleeding.
They keyed a piano up to concert pitch.
Oh, we've been very diplomatic but in the face of a deliberate and concerted political campaign the issues get muddied.
Thomas Heywood enjoys an outstanding reputation as one of the world's finest concert organists.
Clara looked momentarily disconcerted but wasn't about to concede defeat after upbraiding Nicholas a moment before.
To judge from the press, the concert was a great success.
Their cursed digital cameras flared out those blinding blue and green lights throughout the concert.
The Illegal Eagles have progressed from playing the small local club circuit to acquiring a reputation for themselves at major concert venues.
Within the city, call 0131-557-1700 for information about accommodations, theater and concert tickets, tours and maps.
I needed to take a breather after each concerto.
The Town Hall seems fair game for criticism, but in fact there has been a concerted attempt, especially in the past few years, to get things moving.
She associated his father, the patriarch - he acting in close concert with his two accountants, neither of whom were called by the Crown.
An unclassifiable mixture of animation, drama, love story, coming-of-age-tale-slash-concert movie, Hedwig is adapted from Mitchell's off-Broadway hit of the same name.
Jon's suite, which makes up the entirety of the original Concerto record, is nothing better than a bad mixture of hard rock soloing and a rather childish idea of classical music.
For Reeves, a Bowl concert can be intimidating, but the difficulties it presents also inspire her as a singer.
A simple single-storey pavilion is enclosed by folded concertina walls and roof, prompting irresistible comparisons with origami.
A concert was held at the invitation of the mayor.
The band has a strong emphasis on vocals and harmony with guitarists, concertina, keyboard, accordion and harmonica backing.
Colmar music "Colmar International Festival" this year celebrates the creative relationship between violinist Jacques Thibaud and pianist Marguerite Long with 26 concerts, including works by Brahms and Mozart. What's on Around Europe
The lad and devoted dad must overcome corruption and indifference as they strive to make it in the rarefied world of the concert musician without connections.
In the end, we all decided to organize a concert for Easter.
That might have been crass, but the film is peppered with jarring references and disconcerting parallels to current events.
He said they were anxious to promote the development of the concert hall.
On a certain day it was given a concert performance on the deck of the ship. DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
There is an idea amongst people who never go to classical concerts - which is the majority of the population - that it is full of people in tiaras and cummerbunds.
Hundreds of people attended the famous director's farewell concert.
He unfurled the blanket insulation over the concertina wire and scrambled over the fence as a Doberman streaked toward him, snarling. THE KILL CLAUSE
Three thousand audience crowded the concert hall.
We'reall disappointed that Daimler, the main corporate sponsor of the Summer Concert Festival in Washington Park for the past four years, isnot ableto support the performances again for 2009. Grim news from Grimwad (Jack Bog's Blog)
we may possibly run into them at the concert
The classroom was a hive of activity as the children prepared for the concert.
The national team will play its home games here and it is expected to become a concert venue. Times, Sunday Times
I attended with some positive anticipation, because the Poulenc Concerto, along with the Camille Saint-Sa'ns Symphony No. 3 avec orgue (with organ), have always seemed highly imaginative examples of gifted composers managing to craft beautiful and meaningful, even reflective statements for the mighty and potentially overpowering instrument. Undefined
They used to take me up to Auckland for Philharmonia concerts and film festivals.
After the banquets, the concerts the table tennis exhibitor, he went home tiredly.
looked at each other dumbly, quite disconcerted
They were forced to cancel the concert when the conductor became ill.
The prospect of cashing in on the huge émigré market is one reason many Irish retailers are making a concerted effort to make inroads into e-commerce.
He was approached by the organisers to lend support to a benefit concert.
This ticket entitles you to a free seat at the concert.
I am aware that the Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox, Mass. gave a number of contemporary music concerts this year and they were very warmly received. Skin and Bone
Though the small room was jam-packed that evening, it proved to be a very intimate setting for a jazz trio concert.
In that context, I found phrases like these kind of disconcerting and hard to read: the passions of his bewildered heart … a maelstrom of melancholicaly erupted emotion … causing a bit of the guilt to spatter through his brow … that would never permit his repression, never allow for nothing short of predetermined apocalyptic salvation. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum
The claim is made that there were several flaws in this case, and for years there has been a concerted attempt to declare that the case made against Hanratty was ‘unsafe.’
On those occasions the CHAzn presents a veritable concert of liturgical selections, often with a choir to assist him.
Vienna's trump cards include concerts in the palaces where Mozart made music.
Keeping the performer at ease is usually entrusted to the agent and concert promoter.
I can pl'y the squiffer -- I mean the concertina, Sir -- a fair treat for a hammatore. The Dop Doctor
Titian with Duccio, for example - making them consecutive leads to disconcerting contiguities before and aft, Crivelli with Campin, Velázquez with Stubbs... Evening Standard - Home
There was a champagne reception before the concert.
Britain has to pursue policies in concert with other EU members.
The monotonous stretches of this concert package make it difficult to feel anything about him at all.
A larger-scale version of the sextet of spirits which closes act I, act IV moves with the quickness and confusedness of a full Mozartian concerted finale. 'An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa
Even the thin can't escape the waist/belly concertina effect that happens after a certain age when you sit down.
Kanako Ito, the highly talented violinist and concertmistress of the Kansas City Symphony, will perform Mendelssohn’s “Violin Concerto in E Minor” on a Symphony Classical Series performance Oct. 23-25. KansasCity.com: Front Page
Two concerts were directed by volunteer band and orchestra conductors and attracted an audience of more than 2,000 people.
The first prize winner will tour the U.S. in a series of more than 20 concerts prearranged by the Chopin Foundation.
Beyond the concert hall, he found much that belied the western image of the country. Times, Sunday Times
People came from far and wide to see the concert.
They normally do experimental concerts to smallish audiences in jazz clubs. Times, Sunday Times
I would recommend Vladimir Horowitz's recordings of the études and mazurkas, Artur Rubinstein's recordings of the polonaises and concertos, and Luiz de Moura-Castro's recordings of the ‘Ballade in G minor’ and the nocturnes.
The orchestra is to perform its last ever concert/last concert ever tomorrow night at the Albert Hall.
Tuneful trumpeters joined harmonious horn players at Bury Music Centre when they staged annual concert performances.
The concert is part of this Meltdown Festival curated by Morrissey.
There are also educational pieces, numerous compositions of chamber music and two concertos.
London has suddenly gained a new concert hall and two theatres. Times, Sunday Times
The government has blocked off a major highway for street markets, concerts and plays.
But since she'd considered herself relatively fit, she was disconcerted when her muscles began aching after just a short time.
All the exquisite, surrounding obscurity was animated by that music, which continued in the distance, in the mystery of the leaves and of the stones, in the depths of all the small, black holes of rocks or walls; it seemed like chivies in miniature, or rather, a sort of frail concert somewhat mocking -- oh! not very mocking, and without any maliciousness -- led timidly by inoffensive gnomes. Ramuntcho
If I compare it to the symphonies, concerti, and chamber music, it seems rather bland to me, but why deny people their fun?
These systems provide better sound, and also protect musicians' hearing from the blare of the huge sound systems used in large concert halls.
The hostile gang was temporarily disconcerted by the manoeuvre, then it dashed from the train in pursuit. Chapter 42
The first half of the concert moved from 16th century recorder music, through Mozart, vocal chamber music, on to rumbustious wind sea shanties and then a lively string quintet.
Otani then remembers that he bought her a souvenir from the concert, an Umibozu towel! Lovely Complex ep 14 « Undercover
On Friday Oct. 22 in Atherton, California, Elvis Costello is playing what is likely his first-ever concert with a dress code. Clint Wilder: Elvis Costello's New Economy vs. Big Oil's Old One
Edward Elgar is a paragon of the valedictory, with his two later concerti, for violin and cello, held up as sterling examples. Archive 2008-01-01
But he was classically trained and composed a number of orchestral works, including an acclaimed concerto which took him into the classical music charts. Times, Sunday Times
It's been a week and he still regards me with that disconcertingly haunted stare.
The ABC were never in fact supporting the concert, but merely recording it, in order to broadcast the event at a later date.
I'm sorry. I must dash away now. I'm already late for the concert.
It is so often the case that choral concerts tend to be rather bitty, a less than carefully thought out selection of items from a choral society's current repertoire.
With regard to the sinfonie concertante there appears to be a hitch, and I believe that some unseen mischief is at work. The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Monkees played a post-game concert there after a Rapids match.
His concertos are made up of strings of juxtaposed contrasting movements (between four and six per concerto) and you sense that he could go on adding more gigues, sarabandes and gavottes without damaging the overall structure.
In 1989, he gave 63 solo concerts nationwide, a record that is still unbroken.
This ticket entitles you to a free seat at the concert.
Randy Krajewski, who plays accordion, bass, concertina, and piano and sings, appears to be the driving force behind this homage, and the band pulls it off nearly flawlessly.
The concert was brilliant - it lived up to all our expectations.
The composer himself remarked on its innovation: a ‘sonata written in a concertante manner, almost like a concerto.’
The ambassador was clearly disconcerted by the British reaction.
The band has performed at several concerts abroad and is at present recording its third album.
Wainwright’s concert at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday (and also last night) was not merely a show, but a cultural event that drew a sold-out crowd dotted with celebrities and an audience that held Wainwright in rapturous esteem. Katie Holmes “So You Think You Can Dance” VIDEO (Judy Garland “Get Happy” Tribute)
They keyed a piano up to concert pitch.
Moog 's concert footage does feature some notable players (Money Mark and Mix Master Mike, funkster Bernie Worrell, Rick Wakeman from Yes, a brief burst of Stereolab). The Birth of the Synthesizer
The aria, "Ombra leggier," is fairly lavish in its texture of vocal embroidery, and has always been a favorite number on the concert stage. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers
The tickets for the concert were snapped up within three hours of going on sale.
The concerts have featured internationally renowned bands playing music as diverse as African dance music, ska, jive, salsa and Bhangra.
She pushed more forcefully, and it suddenly slid back like a concertina, separating into seven distinct panels. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
And whether they play in smoky cellar clubs or spacious concert hall, jazz musicians are drawing record crowds.
Items at either end of the concert provided welcome ballast. Times, Sunday Times
The new concerto is a delightful piece with an exquisite central slow movement," he said. Vivaldi flute concerto discovered
On stage at the concert hall is Roland, the quiet and intense orchestra leader, who is befriended by local musician and The Who fanatic, Alex.
Squint and you can see a female violinist sitting next to the concertmaster, in the new outfit the orchestra introduced for its -- very few -- woman players. And so it begins
When no sponsor was found to plug the gap, it pulled the concert, forfeiting a substantial deposit.
He was speaking not in a preconcert lecture or the like, but after the first movement. Berlin in Lights: The Magic of Silence - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
Carrying picnic baskets, and dressed for the occasion, the crowd was entertained by local musicians - part of a free concert laid on for the event.
In his early years he also sold a variety of articles like accordions, concertinas and mouth-organs, costume accessories and straw hat polish - anything indeed which would turn an honest penny.
The Sligo trio have spoke several times of their burning desire to play a concert in their home town.
The concerts have featured internationally renowned bands playing music as diverse as African dance music, ska, jive, salsa and Bhangra.
Following the death of John Lennon in 1980, Ono continued her career and has recorded albums, performed concert tours, and composed two off-Broadway musicals. Five People Born on February 18 | myFiveBest
The ngoma is where traditional music is played, but it's no rock concert.
I never understood the screaming hysteria, swooning, and sobbing that seem conventional behaviour for thronging female audiences at big rock concerts.
She stomped her way through Bruch's violin concerto last year to little payoff. Stomp me if you've heard this one before
Every note he wrote will be played, from the familiar string quartets, piano concertos, violin sonatas and symphonies to more obscure compositions, such as his 100 folk songs and cantatas.
Believing that music should be free, man, a groundswell of penny-pinching hippies forced the promoter to provide free concerts as a sidebar to the festival.
In concert with its European partners the British Government can use this meeting to shift its public stance on the question of ‘globalisation’.
She also held concerts in Dortmund, Dusseldorf, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Norway and Brussels. Ali Safavi: Marzieh, Iran's Musical Icon, Passes Away
This provides a mechanism to influence the two muscle groups to work in concert for continent urine storage and release.
Future performances may well be tighter, but for now this concerto is an uncompelling curiosity. Times, Sunday Times
'Can we still buy tickets for the concert?' 'I imagine so.'
He will conduct the Vienna Philharmonic in the final concert of the season.
following preconcerted plans
Who is giving the speech/lecture/concert?
We went to hear Israeli conductor, harpsichordist and concertinist Shalev Ad-El at the Leon de Greif auditorium on the Plaza Che Gevara at the National U. A Warm Day, and a Concert « Unknowing
There was a champagne reception before the concert.
Are its movements identical with those of the body, or only preconcerted and coincident with them, or is one simply an aspect of the other? Theaetetus
We arrange to meet again after the concert to share another taxi back to the hotel.
Mama, convinced she had produced a wunderkind, arranged for Cole to play piano and violin concerts in and around Peru.
People can go to concerts, music performances and drumming workshops or a silent art auction.
The twin brothers always enjoy going to the concert.
Then we went to the Ukrainian Museum (do you sense a theme here?) for a concert of ballads, folksongs, and instumental music from the East European Jewish and Ukrainian traditions (I'm quoting the program). My Friday, By Delia
He had been a famous violinist and concert leader for most of his professional life and still enjoyed playing music.
At 13, Avril won the grand prize in a radio station contest, a trip to Ottawa to perform a duet in concert with Shania Twain.
There were paper balls and bells that concertinaed flat for storage, but when opened were in quarters of red and blue and yellow; the paper was barely more substantial than tissue and the decorations were easily torn. Irish Blogs
Even with extra seats placed in the aisles, occupancy was far more than 100 per cent at both the concerts we attended.
The concert hall resounded with cheers and applause.
He put his hands together, fingers interlocked, and cracked his knuckles like a concert pianist about to attempt a particularly difficult concerto. Star Trek The Next Generation®
When the two concerts come off there are no high fives or group hugs. Times, Sunday Times
And whether they play in smoky cellar clubs or spacious concert hall, jazz musicians are drawing record crowds.
In concert, the band displayed a power and charisma unparalleled in modern music.
I want to assist to / at / your school next July. We assisted at the concert last Saturday means 'We helped to organize the concert.' Use:We went to the concert last Saturday.
And what about Queen's Park, the Town Gardens and the concert bowl, and Lydiard Park and its beautifully restored mansion?
Back in 1969 the band's keyboardist first performed a concerto he had written to fuse the band's sound with a symphony orchestra.
I mean Mighty Joey Young, with films and albums and concert dates, and his own prime time TV show.
For listeners, this rendering of a concert experience is ‘the kernel of enjoyment that simultaneously attracts and repels us’.
Beyond all the expected political rhetoric, Palestinian kids from the West Bank town of Jenin had played a concert for Holocaust survivors in Holon, outside of Tel Aviv. Karin Kloosterman: Why the Strings of Peace Were Silenced
Common problems include drones being used to deliver drugs, mobile phones and food to prisoners and to capture footage of football matches and concerts from open-air stadiums. Times, Sunday Times
The flamboyant frontman of rock group Queen will be remembered at the concert at The Barbican in York on Saturday November 24.
We were told to keep our seats because the show wasn't over until ABBA sang and unbidden, the audience started clapping along happily, as a virtual mini-ABBA concert was performed at the end.
There was a most disconcerting wobble to the steering.
Large crowds were gathering outside the palace to watch the pop concert, starring ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, on giant screens.
The concert was well enough advertised but ticket sales were poor.
Mozart's final, intensively creative years in Vienna produced all manner of wonders – operas, symphonies, concerti and several works for the keyboard. Mozart in Vienna
He appeared on stage in many variety concerts and was a wonderful MC.
The fact that the concert made a profit was considered incidental.
Del Toro's wood-plank facade is now scuffed and plastered with concert bills, no sign or door in sight.
They all recognized him when he came closer, and they watched him with that peculiar concertedness which seizes upon an expectant company, until he dismounted at the corral gates and came toward them. The Range Boss
He jets to Bruce Springsteen concerts, has several luxury cars and collects fossils in prehistoric amber.
So might a concert pianist, accustomed to performing on a Steinway grand, have been shocked when they wheeled in an old joanna from a neighbourhood pub.
The director let me tune and regulate the piano, a beautiful old Steinway grand, in their small concert hall.
At a typical concert they dress as monks, grinding out slow, heavy riffs while dry ice lends the vibe of an apocalyptic wasteland. Times, Sunday Times
The star-studded indoor festivities included action star Jackie Chan, Japanese singer Shinji Tanimura, concert pianist Lang Lang and opera star Andrea Bocelli among the 2,300 performers. Incredible Opening Ceremony as China Celebrates the Shanghai World Expo 2010 | Impact Lab
Fans rushed the stage after the concert.
Continuing, Mr. Mackey said that the steel lighting standards, which had been provided, were pretty robust and they could only be damaged by someone making a concerted effort to break them.
My childhood and adolescence were a joyous outpouring of energy, a ceaseless quest for expression, skill, and experience. School was only a background to the supreme delight of lessons in music, dance, and dramatics, and the thrill of sojourns in the country, theaters, concerts.
It was a memorable concert, but it lacked the energy and spark that I'd heard on his live albums.
The band has cut short its US concert tour.
Exasperated with the straitlaced protocols of concertgoing, Mr. Kantor and Mr. Handler decided to open a club that would present an eclectic mix of programming, not just old and new works from the classical music tradition, but rock, jazz, world music and anything else that might entice people, especially young people, who are curious about out-there music and care little about labels. DesignerBlog
Over in the Marist Hall that evening is a recital at 8pm for: accordions, concertinas, guitars and traditional singing.
It was not that his spirits were visibly high -- he would never, in the concert of pleasure, touch the big drum by so much as a knuckle: he had a mortal dislike to the high, ragged note, to what he called random ravings. The Portrait of a Lady
So… after a few quiet sundowners and pleasant advertising industry banter in the foyer, we padded into the concert hall for the show.
Indeed, the producers claim three recording premieres: the Double Concerto, the Two Portraits, and the chamber-orchestra version of the Sinfonietta.
One of the world's first live concerts by self-taught composers has shed an uncomfortably bright light on the nature of human creativity. Times, Sunday Times
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A whirlwind of a third movement, with its Bartók pizzicati, brought something of the sound world of the last movement of the Barber Violin Concerto.
So, I will be working with Martinu's Double Concerto - scored for two strings orchestras, piano and timpani.
In nearly five decades of concert going this writer has rarely heard more exquisite, sensitively projected Chopin.
The D-Day invasion was a concerted exercise by the armed forces of Britain, the US and Canada.
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Last year, the concert impresario allowed fans to access recordings of live performances from its Reading Festival.

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