How to Use concerto in a Sentence

concerto

noun

• This detail sits like a concerto’s melody on the top of the great orchestral workings of global politics.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 28 Aug. 2017
• Brandenburg Concertos A rare (and welcome) chance to hear all six of Bach’s beloved concertos in one evening.
  — Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 4 June 2017
• Reiner was involved in the original composition of the concerto.
  — Emily Sorensen, Pomerado News, 26 July 2017
• The violin sections of the Festival orchestra are stuffed with concertmasters, any one of whom could have played the concerto.
  — Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 June 2017
• However, the career that came with recognition wasn’t always to her liking, especially concerto dates.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 16 June 2017
• Each of these experiences reverberates through the halls, part of the cacophonous concerto of post-Katrina fandom.
  — Rafi Kohan, GQ, 9 Aug. 2017
• The Berg concerto, written in 1935, the last year of Berg's life, set the scene for all that.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• Some of them go put their own firm stamp on the concerto, too.
  — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 2 June 2018
• Still, the heart of the concerto was surely the Adagio.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 22 July 2019
• The first bars of the Tchaikovsky are among the most famous opening chords of all time, but the concerto offers so much more.
  — Anthony Barcellos, sacbee, 18 Jan. 2018
• The piece is as heroic as Brahms’s concerto, though in a more playful mode.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2019
• Among them, the reasons a Mozart concerto is like a baseball game.
  — Stuart Isacoff, WSJ, 17 June 2022
• Or when a breeze rushes through the trees, could that be a violin concerto?
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 25 Jan. 2018
• There are also two concertos, one for oboe and one for piano.
  — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 25 June 2018
• The oboe concerto is Vaughan Williams at his pastoral best.
  — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 25 June 2018
• Once, the wild and melancholy strains of a Tchaikovsky concerto could lift the heart of Volodymyr Syvokhip, who at 57 has been the symphony’s director for the last 17 years.
  — Laura Kingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2022
• Some of it seemed directly related (to the concerto) and some less so.
  — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 Oct. 2017
• The horn concerto, commissioned by the L.A. Philharmonic, was the highlight of the first half.
  — Jon Burlingame, Variety, 22 Nov. 2021
• Those stretches of ad hoc chamber music were the concerto’s high points.
  — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2020
• But the first half of Tuesday’s program happened to be the West Coast premiere of a new mandolin concerto with a wacky title.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• With more rehearsal time, could the entire concerto have been so solid?
  — Zoë Madonna, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• This is no collegial sparring, as in a concerto by Mozart or Beethoven.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 20 Oct. 2021
• The concerts ranged from classical concertos to jazz performed by a group called The Ghetto Swingers.
  — Douglas Starr, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
• Mamora will play a concerto with the DCS next concert season.
  — Dallas News, 25 June 2022
• Though beguiling, there’s a work-in-progress feel to this 27-minute concerto, which is not often performed.
  — New York Times, 28 Nov. 2019
• The concert day starts at 9 a.m. with a meditative concerto and can run to 10 p.m. or later.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2022
• Popular as Rachmaninoff has long been at the Bowl, the Tchaikovsky concerto is something of a signature song for the venue.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2019
• The modern challenge is making the concerto sound fresh again, and Yusuf succeeded in putting a personal stamp on the piece.
  — Peter Feher, cleveland, 13 Aug. 2023
• Going from that seven-minute work to a 20-minute percussion concerto, though?
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 31 May 2024
• In weekend evening concerts, Uchida will lead three Mozart piano concertos from the keyboard.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2024

Last Updated: 13 Sep 2024