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UK
/sˈɪmfənˌi/
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[ US /ˈsɪmfəni/ ]
[ US /ˈsɪmfəni/ ]
NOUN
- a long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra
-
a large orchestra; can perform symphonies
we heard the Vienna symphony
How To Use symphony In A Sentence
- Poland has ten symphony orchestras, seventeen conservatories, over one hundred music schools, and almost one thousand music centers.
- 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.
- 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
- The maestro is conducting at Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
- 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