How To Use Phony In A Sentence

There is a constant cacophony of owl hoots and rustling rats. Times, Sunday Times
It avoids a phony moral high ground or fake appeals to the sanctity of multilateralism. Globe and Mail
Tracking sports 'online cacophony is tricky enough when just focusing on league websites. NBC's Michaels making Olympic Games comeback
Poland has ten symphony orchestras, seventeen conservatories, over one hundred music schools, and almost one thousand music centers.
But isn't there also a growing problem with counterfeit phony drugs, pharmaceuticals, as well?

They call this chin music, the symphony of the jugular. The Sun
Leinsdorf shows unwonted impetuosity in his approach to tempos, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, while not consistently as refined as it could be, plays the music tautly.
Unlike his usual style, the symphony ends with an adagio that includes some of the most anguished music he ever composed.
The symphony begins with an introduction where ideas jostle against and interrupt one another.
His work now goes beyond regular online advertising into other media such as mobile telephony and e-mail.
The animation of insentient or nonhuman entities produces an effect of cacophony and distraction.
It's a paradox of modern politics: to "act" is to be phony, but because of the demands and limitations of big-room oratory, if you don't act the text you'll look wooden and-phony. Behind Enemy Lines
As such, offering managed telephony services is a natural extension of their business model.
How phony it is for the news media to engage in seemingly honorable self-analysis: "Did we overhype the storm? David Ropeik: Hurricane Hype? Yes. Overreaction? Nonsense!
The classical music scene languished during the war as symphony orchestras and opera companies lost musicians to military bands.
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
I knew I caught a whiff of something flammable in the office air Friday afternoon when a cacophony of squawking arose from a neighboring borough of Cubeville.
The mind instantly converts an innocent remark into a cacophony of suggestive possibilities.
Being raised in a Lutheran tradition, my vocal writing is largely chorale style homophony contrasting with traditional contrapuntal textures.
The maestro is conducting at Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
He called his system an "organum" or "diaphony," and to sing according to his rules was called to "organize" or Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
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
The film plays like a classical symphony on the withering of age and the resilience of a couple's love under growing strain. Times, Sunday Times
A scrunchy havoc of whip, sleigh bells, saxophones, bass guitar, as well as the full forces of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Nibelung note of a household hammer for good measure, bashed, danced and whirled through this 15-minute non-stop toccata. BBC Prom 54; La fanciulla del West; Joyce DiDonato; Simon Keenlyside; Kronos Quartet
A new girl called Monique, for once a real Frenchwoman and not a phony, had started a few weeks previously. Dangerous Lady
Let us leave the sweet euphony of Bangla to our poets, and the salvation-enhancement of Sanskrit to our priests.
For example, a voice-over-IP telephony application might generate ring-in, ring-out, connect, and disconnect events, and expose call, hold, and hang-up actions.
In general, users have listed three primary benefits from the managed telephony service.
SHIFT (6) Afrophile adj. decorative aposelene projectual diplotene, aposelenium psychedelicize, adj. biotron v. dirty quadriphony quadriphonics dustoff reticulosis punch-up technopolis quantized, skim INITIAL AFFIXATIONS (20) adj. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1
Notice the ways in which the problem/argument is posited in the octave and the solution/response is presented in the sestet; moreover, to further the problem/argument, Hopkins relies heavily upon cacophony in the octave but turns heavily to euphony in the sestet. Argument in verse
His nonprofit corporation, Working Arts, took over responsibility for the center when the symphony board filed for bankruptcy last year.
Even though he had to raise his voice to be heard over the cacophony of barks and meows and snarls, Al made sure his tone was scathing as he went on opening cages.
He has written for strings a berceuse and a scherzino, which have been played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and certain part songs, as well as a chorus for female voices and string orchestra, have been sung in London. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
I should also note that he did a fine job of stuffing the ballot box with phony phone calls to Smith to make him look he supported the draft.
The Symphony consists of only three movements - a pathetic Allegro in D minor, a highly original Scherzo in the same key, and a blissful Adagio in E major.
The orchestra, founded in 1912, and Symphony 3 (1913-15, premiered 1917) are roughly coevals.
The tulips bloomed a brilliant symphony of colours and rivalled the loveliness of the birds who frequented the yard.
Just as dodecaphony never followed a monolithic party line, neither did neoclassicism.
Written for Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Die Natali is a fantasy on Christmas carols.
A cacophony of rhythms and sounds stream through the studio walls and flood the air.
Care was lavished just as much on the symphony's softer underbelly. Times, Sunday Times
Doctor Sachs likens his surgery to an artist conducting a symphony and has appeared on TV.
Slowly, with a cacophony of noise and steam and crunching power, we pulled away. Times, Sunday Times
The warmth displayed in the opening adagio was refreshing, but the constant flux in this elusive symphony needs to sound natural, inevitable. Times, Sunday Times
From Dvo ř á k ' s " New World " Symphony, with its construct of Indian and African-American folk idioms, to Messiaen ' s bird-song transcriptions of Bryce Canyon, composers have responded to it most often with collages, drawing on different musical and even extramusical references. Turning the City
It sounded a bit like a tonal American symphony written by a Russian who knows his Britten.
One of the big joys of this production, after the divine euphony of Kremer's sound, is the return to the eleven-instrument orchestration of Piazzolla's original score.
And so she did, watching in quiet disassociation as the sun began to rise over the distant trees, lighting the sky on fire with a symphony of reds and oranges.
My problem with the cardinal’s statements is that he is taking this idea of materialism and laying it squarely on Darwin’s shoulders, essentially saying that evolution and materialism are equivalent: “What I call evolutionism is an ideological view that says evolution can explain everything in the whole development of the cosmos, from the Big Bang to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony” Vienna cardinal draws lines in Intelligent Design row - The Panda's Thumb
The spirit of togetherness, of giving, of peace and goodwill overcomes the commercial cacophony.
Like the Poco Allegretto of the composer's third symphony, the wistful melody of this movement gives the score poignancy that stamps it as one of the great creations of the romantic era.
Either way, they made this noble symphony sound bombastic and sometimes comical. Times, Sunday Times
Besides these three sources measurably unprofessional and outside of music, or amateur, as we say now, there was the work of the professional musicians strictly so-called, who, from about 1100 in the old French school, commenced the development of what is now known as polyphony, which culminated in the hands of the Netherlanders, about 1580, Palestrina himself being one of the latest products of this school. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
Back in 1969 the band's keyboardist first performed a concerto he had written to fuse the band's sound with a symphony orchestra.
Still, there was something going around in the mid to late 90's in the gaming industry that doesn't really seem as prevalent today: Outrageous, preposterous ambitions to cram a complete history of everything into every plot point, every gameplay system, every FMV sequence ... it was like the late Romantic period at the turn of the 1900's, where Gustav Mahler could say "To write a symphony is to construct the world" and mean it. Great Big Bites
A V-shaped skein passing overhead with a cacophony of honks floating down still epitomizes wildness and freedom for many people.
The Telephony snap - in is used to configure and manage the Telephony service.
If you listen closely enough, you should be able to make out the angry words above the din: a cacophony of female voices raised to the rafters with one common message for their menfolk.
His own composition classes were solidly based on a historical foundation of Gregorian chant, Palestrinian and Bachian polyphony, Beethoven's symphonic language, and Franck's technique of cyclic themes.
Twenty-two months after I'd last seen him, Bellman came to San Francisco for a series of performances with the symphony.
R. did not so much wallow in self-pity as luxuriate in a whimpering, orchestrated, self-flagellating symphony of slights, woes, and despairs.
In most well-written homophony, the parts that are not melody may still have a lot of melodic interest. Archive 2009-05-01
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We have to pick our way to sanity through a cacophony of pressure and hassle which are not the product of any one moment in time but of the times in which we live.
After making an international name for himself, he spent several years exposing phony spiritualists and mediums.
The dad of two was experiencing autophony, one of the symptoms of superior canal dehiscence syndrome, an illness that was unknown until 10 years ago. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
This frees McFerrin to experiment with musical forms ranging from Medieval polyphony to African folk music.
Yamauchi said the team at Polyphony Digital has been working on several different areas of late, including a new physics engine and damage, as well as adding moveable objects on the track (such as destructible tyre walls on the Tokyo Route 246 track, playable on the show floor of TGS 2009). CNET Australia
The warmth displayed in the opening adagio was refreshing, but the constant flux in this elusive symphony needs to sound natural, inevitable. Times, Sunday Times
Symphony No. 3 in E flat Major "Rhenish" - our bi-polar Renaissance man was all happy when he wrote this one. Onegoodmove
In scope and breadth it rivals the Jupiter Symphony, especially as it embraces the sequence of affects -- risoluto, espessivo, dolce and Scherzino --- in turn and develops each of its several expositional motifs. Audiophile Audition Headlines
But there was certainly nothing phony about the police officer who met up with her in order to personally escort her to the bank from which she received the cash originally.
It's too late, of course, and Affleck is forced to maintain his phony identity, fake his way through the casino hit, and hope he makes it alive to final credits.
By means of a generous employment of free counterpoint, in other words a kind of polyphony in which the various voices use different melodies in harmonious combination, he gained a potent auxiliary in his cunning workmanship, and emphasized the folly of rejecting the contrapuntal experiences, of, for instance, a Sebastian Bach. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music
There is usually a complete lack of ceremony with this type of person as they are not a phony psychic or exorcist.
I thought I spotted you in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, last week, accompanying Nigel Kennedy.
He needs to get the NIssan GT-R when it comes out. 0-60 in 3.2 seconds (tested by edmunds.com), 1.1G on skidpad, 4WD, 196 mph top speed, center console with lcd screen that displays full telememtry (developed by Polyphony, the makers of the Gran Turismo series, the best driving simulator on the planet), and is only $70,000. I'm thinking about getting a new car
Singh said that Pepper conspired with Young to devise the scheme to pass phony checks.
Though I am not a voyeur, I do take some enjoyment from watching these idling drivers punch their car radios, and, if their windows are down, listening to the cacophony of sounds that emit from their sound systems.
This week sees him hook up with the London Symphony Orchestra for four nights of 20th Century orchestral music.
He first conducted the Montreal Symphony in 1999 with a rendering of Mahler's Ninth, regarded as the finest ever heard in this city.
In this function it is a significant incremental improvement to pre-existing telegraphy and telephony.
Only a windlike chant would do -- something with an undertone of human despair, outsoared by brave, savage flights of invincible soul-hope -- great virile singing man-cries, winged as the starlight, weird as space -- Whitman sublimated, David's soul poured out in symphony. The River and I
When Leonard Bernstein unleashed his sprawling Third Symphony - titled "Kaddish" - on the American public in January 1964, the critics practically trampled one another to get in the first jabs. The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post
The congress venue was a big, boxshaped convention centre by the sea known as the Kursaal, the kernel of which is a large amphitheatre used by symphony orchestras.
the symphony was hailed as an ingenious work
Another future trend to watch for is the possibility of free internet telephony.
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The Czechs are over-endowed with great composers, but the symphony that stirs them most comes from a minor master.
Headlines are filled with companies accused of using shoddy practices for personal gain, so PlayMakers Repertory Company's production of Arthur Miller's "All My ... games is on the roster for the San Francisco Symphony's Summer & the Symphony series, which runs from June 1 to An academic, hired by the Defense Department to" conceptualize "the War. WN.com - Articles related to Annette Bening likes getting theatrical
A child prodigy, he wrote his first piece of music at the age of five and completed his first symphony at the age of eight.
The "I had my records expunged" - or "I had my name taken off the list" ploy is just as phony. Capt. Mike McGrath's "Macs Facts"
A Beach Boys Buddy Holly Electric Light Orchestra symphony serenades your bravado with the blissed out chutzpah it requires to rise above the jellyfish and octopi unfazed. Dream World Ideations
At the festival he will perform a solo recital and play the Elgar concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Suddenly, the once somber and silent pressroom erupted in a cacophony of calls vying for the president's attention.
By that I mean they have a relationship that's real, not phony. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
The musicians are selected at auditions similar to those of major symphony orchestras.
The man in custody is Nigerian, and police confirm he has been deported eight times but keeps returning using phony passports. Arrest Made In Massive Fraud
HUIZENGA: Actually, it's a five-movement symphony that plays off just a single teeny-weeny microchip. Bach, Ballet And 1-Bit Symphonies: New Classical CDs
Nolan then called a gutsy, inventive game - direct snaps to receivers, an onside kick right after halftime, a phony fake punt and two attempted fourth-down conversions when the game still was winnable - yet nothing worked against the Seahawks 'sturdy defense. USATODAY.com - Football - San Francisco vs. Seattle
Russian composer, has given us in his symphony "Antar" a tone picture of this Arabian Negro's life that opens and closes with an atmospheric eastern pastorale of great beauty. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is best in the strings; wind intonation can be iffy, but the playing has personality throughout.
The night before our chat, in Edinburgh, he persuaded a Book Festival crowd to exchange mobile numbers then create a mini-symphony of rings and bleeps.
One would expect the relentless cacophony of vulgarities and the unrelenting evocation of disturbing mental images first to shock, then to have a numbing effect on the audience.
Watch as, in a glib aside, he patronises a culturally-hungry bevy of 50,000 people and, in the aftermath, ponder the unspoken insinuation that popular music is just a cacophony that only appeals to thickos.
Buses, lorries and heavy vehicles stream past in endless cacophony. Times, Sunday Times
Puddles of frozen slush glittered dully in the reflected yellow light from the phony gas lamps that illuminated the brick-paved plaza. A RODENT OF DOUBT
Bach had an unparalleled talent for assimilating disparate influences into an architecturally harmonious whole at a time when an unprecedented number of disparate influences — Renaissance polyphony, Lutheran chorale, Italian monody, French dance music, you name it — was ripe for assimilation. Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame that burns your change
The religious Fourth Symphony synchretizes Gregorian and Orthodox chants, Lutheran chorales, and Jewish cantillation.
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The homogenous and sparse population was replaced by the restless diversity, sprawl and cacophony of one of the fastest growing places in America.
A computer screen has two spatial dimensions; holography and stereophony require an additional spatial dimension.
However, he made out the words Dennier and Earth in the cacophony of clicks and hisses.
Horse and rider raced along in a cacophony of breaking branches, shouts, and whinnies. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
Puddles of frozen slush glittered dully in the reflected yellow light from the phony gas lamps that illuminated the brick-paved plaza. A RODENT OF DOUBT
On one side was Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur, railing against what he called the cacophony of Web 2.0 and the calamitous effects of user-generated content on our culture. Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
One great difficulty was that of recruiting radio operators owing to the fact that wireless telegraphy is very little used in the commercial air services over here, which operate by means of the radio ranges, and radio telephony when within range of the control towers of the airfields. Some Aspects of the Royal Air Force Transport Command
It is also a haven for the symphony, ballet and theater.
This leaves the orchestra without a conductor, and a musical cacophony verging on dissonance.
The Danish astrologer I referred to is one such individual, joining in the cacophony of screeches and strident appeals to action, all based on lies and inventions.
Lifted from their debut EP, this minimalistic yet charmingly whimsical slice of lo-fi alt-folk opens with nought but a lone slappy bass riff and jerky surreal prose, before blossoming out into a cacophony of wondrous twangy noises, and ends up sounding like Badly Drawn Boy, Sufjan Stevens and a parliament of owls caught up in a weird feathery, beardy group hug, happily tumbling down an upwards escalator in slow motion. This week's new singles
Symphony Hall is still quivering. Times, Sunday Times
The combination of melodies in polyphony, one of the great artistic achievements of medieval Europe, has produced the need for a more specialized explanation of melody in Western music.
As the march swung past Number 10 there was a cacophony of whistles, boos, jeers and insults.
It is still unclear today how 3G is expected to improve mobile telephony over WAP.
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Like a safety valve, it releases the pent-up pressures of our wired cacophony. Times, Sunday Times
In a musical climate where beauty is often disregarded or located in asymmetrical euphony, bands like Kepler are clinging to an older and more concrete conception of beauty - one that hinges on order, balance, and tradition.
We took a bottle of wine to the flat where he was staying, and he showed me the sketches of Schubert's last symphony, uncompleted on his death.
We don't want them showing up at the theater at the wrong time, or coming in anticipation of a circus when the symphony is playing.
The experience of reading it is bewildering at first, with no friendly narrator to hold your hand and just a cacophony of unidentified voices for company. Times, Sunday Times
In the 5th Symphony he dispenses with the pause before the finale.
As quixotic ventures go, the symphony has turned out well. Times, Sunday Times
Stunned by the cultural assumptions of this re-christening, Tseng became Kwong Chi in his photographs, posing with phony officialism in front of famous landmarks.
The composer's first symphony was greeted with such savage criticism that he lost all confidence in his abilities. Times, Sunday Times
While utter fabrications - such as phony academic degrees and made-up jobs - are big no-nos, you can commit some sins of omission with virtual impunity.
Three illegal aliens are accused of using phony documents to get jobs at a U.S. military base.
Here, Polyansky is given about the best sound reproduction the symphony has yet enjoyed and his orchestra isn't bad, either.
He has played with all the major London symphony and chamber orchestras.
In this symphony we were treated to the unusual - but enjoyable - sounds of mandolin and guitar.
And then there is this so called "infill," aka bulldoze old city, built NYC here and now, but all 100 year old new modern (no "phony" craftsman for them). Crosscut
You can convert profits to losses, put money in phony loans, buy businesses without people knowing who you are, and evade all laws regulating money.
I much prefer the orchestra's 1998 recording of the symphony.
His outsider image, to start with, is phony.
The carnival parade was a blast of colour and a cacophony of sound.
A new symphony, the Sinfonia semplice, followed within months and Nielsen conducted its first performance himself, as he had all its predecessors except the First.
Mr Bell's researches in electric telephony began with the artificial production of musical sounds, suggested by the work in which he was then engaged in Boston, viz., teaching the deaf and dumb to speak.
The Chamber Symphony from 1967 is definitely a massive leap forward and here one can sense the deep atonal overtones that lie behind the heart of the music.
Symphony #4 was finished in 1934 but languished unplayed until 1967, five years before the composer's death.
To add to the incessant cacophony of all the usual hucksters and souvenir traders, the pilgrims and the clergy, the temple is also still being built.
The headsets are the first to offer true triple connectivity, allowing mobile-centric and office-centric workers to manage calls seamlessly from their computer telephony (softphone), desk and mobile phones. Undefined
The cable company wants to focus on selling TV, telephony and broadband. Times, Sunday Times
One work the couple has performed frequently is a four-hand arrangement of Brahms's Fourth Symphony, written by the composer himself.
The present orchestra outplays the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, however, and the stereo broadcast sonics surpass Vox's monaural recording.
As the drummer spits out a cacophony of quick-wristed rhythms and slashing fills, the music rages on to a cathartic finale.
Suddenly all the indicators began flashing an angry red and several alarms signals went off at once creating a loud cacophony of buzzes, sirens and wails.
And then there's the symphony's scherzo, which is based on a separate piece Mahler wrote using an excerpt about St. Anthony of Padua from the German folk poems "Des Knaben Wunderhorn". Chicagoist
Last night was a symphony of exhaustion, earthquakes, and poor cooking decisions.
In three movements, played without a break, the symphony begins deceptively, as a more-or-less neoclassic toccata.
Because of the Fourth Symphony, writers tend to view the Prélude and Fugue as an adumbration, rather than as something aesthetically complete in its own right.
The decor of the chalet was a symphony of dark wood and white drapes.
Waterfall greeted her with a solemn and purposeful symphony - muted strings and timpani rolls and, far off in the background, as though being created by spray and the rising mist, a limpid, shining, flute-like voice joined the music.
Moby-Dick: Polyphony: Learn how Biblical references and imagery are used in popular literature of the 20th century, namely Moby Dick, in this lecture. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
Taking the mickey out of modern dance, they conjure up moves by all the greats, starting with Isadora Duncan swanning around the Louvre and ending in a symphony of blue.
As manual switchboards were phased out after World War II, we started moving from analog to digital telephony.
Beneficiaries of her largesse have included the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the Vancouver Art Gallery.
He is a protean stylist who can move from blues to ballads and grand symphony.
The "Symphony No. 4" or "Symphonie concertante for Piano and Orchestra," depending on how it's billed, is one of the composer's final works and it has the sound of everybody from Carl Nielsen to Bartok in it, but the voice is definitely its own, and the wonderful performance made me want to go to Amoeba Records on a Szymanowski buying spree. Archive 2008-10-01
Not so much a case of blowing his own trumpet as dishing up an entire brass symphony. The Sun
Calling it “Symphony for Eleanor,” the nearly ten-minute work bears little resemblance to the original other than springing from the structure of the original melody and using the original lyrics. Midweek Music Moment: Vehicle, The Ides of March « A Progressive on the Prairie
The squeals of the larva should have been horrifying to Cameron, yet she found them almost pleasing, riffs of a symphony she had composed. MINUTES TO BURN
Traditional fakes come from a process called offset lithography that produces phony dollars without the ‘raised ink’ feel of genuine bills.
Although the Symphony lacks the striking originality of future masterpieces like "Fratres" (1977) or "Tabula Rasa" (1977), the adagio-like second movement, with its dark, anguished outbursts in the low strings, points the way. P
His Keatsian Choral Symphony took many years to become established, and the austere bitonality of the Fugal Concerto and the Double Concerto for two violins puzzled even his admirers.
There's always a danger in all strong, erotic love that one may love what I might call the polyphony of life. The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow
This series includes a complete cycle of the symphonies performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Leonard Slatkin.
The airport quality inn for one of the perturbing bay sententiously disjointedly hygrometer hedgerow, bristlegrass doojigger, has not truthfully immaculate a hamartia of symphony but that all scouser be resurgent. Rational Review
The wind continued to carry its load of lonesome song " a lowing, an unceasing monophony that drew a cold white chalk line down Ethan's spine. Icerigger
With South to Antarctica, the Christchurch Symphony became the first orchestra to relay a live videocast direct to Antarctica.
The minute I mention the word reward on air, well get hundreds of phony tips. Just Take My Heart
To achieve high-quality IP telephony communications, a gateway must send a full duplex stream of small data packets in real time to satisfy the time division multiplexed telephony interface.
It starts out slow and ethereal, but when the chorus comes, it effloresces into a symphony of preternatural sound that blows you away.
He is devoted to reader empowerment like Keats was devoted to euphony. Pop Culture
Their cacophony is making the biggest mark of the information age. We are all the media
Certain psalmodic chants also became subject to purely musical elaboration, whether through polyphony (in the Latin West) or kalophonia (in the Byzantine East).
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By 1939, married and with two children, he had become organist of Holy Trinity, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, founding both the Leamington Bach Choir and the Warwickshire Symphony Orchestra. Stanley Vann obituary
The acoustical canopy hanging over the stage of San Francisco's Davies Symphony hall is made of 59 6-foot squares of Plexiglas.
Sprung from the remains of the bankrupt New Orleans Symphony, it is the only full-time symphony in America owned and operated by its members.
There was a disappointed frown on her brow as the swirling symphony of notes surrounded us.
And some would call him a big, you know, phony and a shyster.
Toscanini's sense of theater allows them to remain gripping, even at slowish tempos, and the NBC Symphony Orchestra plays them with superhuman concentration.
This is more a symphony in which the piano takes a leading role, rather than an opportunity for individual heroics or display.
And how would the time spent by the presenters of ‘happenings’ and other such phony pretences of art be measured?
It's worse," he repeated, his voice loud and harsh, like a discordant bell clashing in the sostenuto passage of a symphony; "but it's all one to me -- there's nothing else they can take; I'm free, free to sleep or wake, to be drunk when I like with no responsibility to Simmons or any one else -- Mountain Blood A Novel
The Croydon Symphony Orchestra was at work in informal dress; in shirt-sleeves, jeans and other casual clothes.
Before the 10th or 11th century, all Western music was [[monophony | monophonic]], or consisting of only one voice, which was usually a liturgical [[Gregorian chant | chant]]. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
He founded a school of cacophony which resulted in atonalism, and then, like his friend Picasso in art, left his school behind.
A few pieces of Italian polyphony and a couple of madrigals into their first rehearsal, someone pointed out that they had a concert coming up but no conductor.
Rather than a cacophony, it makes of itself a kind of polyphony, an antiphonal richness, an enjoyment of life and the capacity to sing, every day a kind of celebration. Guanajuato's sonic landscape

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