How to Use nocturne in a Sentence

nocturne

noun

• As Cai grew old in the 1980s, his son, Cai Wanghuai, played the nocturne to comfort him.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• That tells us it’s not exactly a nocturne and certainly not a day scene.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 7 Dec. 2019
• Four arrangements of the fanfare are included on the album: the theme, prelude, nocturne and the full fanfare.
  — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2018
• Everybody else was doing nocturnes and things like that.
  — John Orr, The Mercury News, 29 May 2017
• Douglas Brenner: Your flow of rich, moody colors from room to room reminds me of the paintings Whistler called nocturnes, or harmonies.
  — Douglas Brenner, House Beautiful, 2 Nov. 2012
• Sitting at his Petrof piano in his penthouse, Martins reels off Frédéric Chopin’s nocturnes with aplomb.
  — Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2020
• Pace and space We are always told that baseball is the shut-in's friend, the faithful companion of the elderly, the summer nocturne of our golden years.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 22 June 2017
• Varone makes a rare appearance to perform a retrospective of his career in two solos set to Chopin nocturnes.
  — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• Wright's early portraits on one wall bear little resemblance to the dark blue nocturnes on another wall.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 25 Sep. 2017
• The nocturne, marked Lento con gran espressione, begins with a brief, repeated introduction.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 14 Mar. 2020
• This made the opening nocturne feel more contained, less disquieting, than when a soloist and conductor dig deeper into its brooding depths.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• The back-to-back solos, each set to a Chopin nocturne and choreographed 30 years apart, serve as the choreographer’s memoir, a gaze at his whole career and signature movement aesthetic in less than 10 minutes.
  — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• Mr. Pollini opened each half of his Chopin program with a pair of nocturnes, in minor and major keys; the F minor, after intermission, was especially fine.
  — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 23 May 2017
• Moran's pianism — by turns as melodic as a nocturne by Chopin and as explosive as a solo by Cecil Taylor — proved consistently gripping.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 3 June 2017
• After this, Connie Hegarty, piano, explores the development of the nocturne in her performance.
  — courant.com, 2 Dec. 2019
• Roberts made a jazz nocturne of the slow middle movement, his complex chords and original themes catapulting a Roaring ’20s work directly into the 21st century.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• The second of two great septuagenarian pianists passing through New York this week brings with him an all-Chopin program, featuring two sets of nocturnes, a couple of ballades, a scherzo, a berceuse and the third of the composer’s sonatas.
  — David Allen, New York Times, 18 May 2017
• Across the gallery from those nocturnes are impressionist en plein air landscapes, wildly colored like the fauvists, dominated by cotton-candy pink and canary yellow.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 25 Sep. 2017

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