symphony
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“We could give them the symphony, but they couldn’t appreciate it because they’re looking for the best drone.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Winfrey, in a video announcement, described the show as “an immersive symphony of awe, wonder and joy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The former red-light district downtown has been transformed into a dedicated cultural district containing galleries, theaters, museums and a world-class symphony.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Conjuring fantasies is one of humanity’s most ancient arts — a sacred creative practice — but without earthly rooting, the symphony is incomplete.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
This monumental new piece announced to the next generation of composers that the symphony was now to have an epic dimension.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
In October, Noseda and the NSO will release a recording of two symphonies by William Grant Still, who lived in L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Across several studies, participants who listened to specific excerpts from symphonies by Liszt or Mahler imagined similar narratives in the music—storms, pirates and shipwrecks, in one case.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
A box set of Beethoven’s nine symphonies is, though not indispensable—there are hundreds of recorded cycles already—evidence that his orchestra is among the world’s top ensembles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Tense discussions of life-altering events are matched by the diegetic decibels of smooth jazz or string symphonies.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2025
The essence of that originality was to take what composers normally did in symphonies - long, abstract, streams of ‘pure’ instrumental music - and turn it into a sung drama on stage.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing symphony
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Common Senses: Phon ("Sound")
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