How to Use cadenza in a Sentence

cadenza

noun

• And parts of the cadenza sounded more hammered out than played.
  — Dallas News, 25 June 2022
• Her first-movement cadenza was a dance that had one foot in an aristocratic court and the other in the country.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
• Here, the clarinet finishes the thought in a playful cadenza.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 4 Apr. 2020
• One of those lessons was about the very first note of the violin — a wide open G that cracks open like first light before soaring into a cresting cadenza.
  — Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2021
• But Davis’ cadenza was not so much a jazz statement as a linkage between jazz and its antecedents in ancient Africa.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2018
• Orliński’s cadenza began on an A, his voice rising like a peal of bells up to a high F and then descending, with a trill, to the F an octave lower.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 15 July 2019
• Such was the creativity of this cadenza – with its stop-start rhythms, piercing high notes and ferocious sense of swing – that some band members turned around to watch Marsalis at work.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 16 Nov. 2019
• Only a solitary cello is left, plucking out a cadenza full of stammers and silence.
  — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2021
• Roustom set a good deal of dialogue between the soloist and the wind section in the cadenza to acknowledge Fuller Heyde’s position as a member of the orchestra.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 10 May 2021
• Timpani are very much a partner in the long first movement cadenza, taking off from their concerto-opening strokes.
  — Dallas News, 7 Jan. 2023
• The first-movement cadenza was Fritz Kreisler’s rather extravagant one.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2020
• As for Williams, he was charged with the daunting task of composing a cadenza to play over the opening credits for the violinist Isaac Stern, who would perform the music for the onscreen fiddler.
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2022
• The ascending trills in the cadenza of the adagio of the Brahms first piano concerto, each joined by the next and then prolonged with a touch of the pedal—just a little, nothing showy—had a resonance like the shimmering of the universe.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2020
• Alexandra Nowakowski more than filled out the demands of this exhilarating stretch — trills, runs, its own cadenza, and a spectacular high D near the end.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• Flute then clarinet take solos, until later, when two flutes play a double cadenza that’s later echoed by twin clarinets.
  — Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 21 Aug. 2021
• The first-movement cadenza continued in that vein (along with unexpected flashes of humor) but with more richness to come.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 18 May 2018
• Unusually cast in two movements, slow then fast, with a cadenza in the middle, the concerto calls for a supporting ensemble of strings, piano and harp.
  — Dallas News, 9 Nov. 2022
• The longest of Beethoven’s three optional cadenzas outstayed its welcome.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2020
• The heart of the second cadenza is an imperious elaboration of the suave, sauntering theme with which the concerto begins.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
• Her cadenza toward the close of the first movement was a feat of control and abandon, a stunning balance of the explosive and expressive — especially its soft landing.
  — Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2021
• Either way, Potter gave listeners a great deal to ponder in the first of several titanic cadenzas.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2017
• The central cadenza is a jagged maze of quick-moving double stops, and Benedetti scaled its mountains and valleys in economical, fluid gestures.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2023
• Before the exuberant cadenza, the violin plays some quarter-tones (starting at 49 seconds, in the clip below).
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021
• Faust’s cadenza in the Allegro, her own arrangement of a version of the concerto for piano and soloist, was a joy, a panoramic mix of martial melody and virtuoso technical display.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 14 Feb. 2020
• The pianist could’ve been more judicious with rubato around Grieg’s crashing chords, especially in the first movement cadenza.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2019
• His cadenza (by his brother Andrew) was effective, though wandering from Mozart’s style.
  — Olin Chism, star-telegram.com, 3 June 2017
• The cadenza, intended to show off my mastery of technique in harmonic fireworks, ended on a wildly dissonant F#.
  — Samuel Ernest, Longreads, 2 May 2023
• The first movement’s long cadenza included a dialogue between Kavakos and timpanist Tim Genis, which sounded almost like a Renaissance dance in its open harmonies and hearty rhythm.
  — Zoë Madonna, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• The cadenza in the first movement was arrestingly rhapsodic, and the second movement was gorgeously shaped and juicy with portamento.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022
• Denève‘s tempos in Waltz of the Flowers were intriguingly relaxed, starting with a fearlessly expansive reading of the harp cadenza.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 20 July 2017

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