Example sentences for: recital

How can you use “recital” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Last year, she opted to give a recital in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, rather than in the larger Avery Fisher Hall (to the chagrin of the presenter).

  • In a recital at Carnegie Hall more than a year ago, he reached for that sound and, at one excruciating moment, lost control of his bowing and sent out a wild overtone, double the volume of his normal playing, like the feedback on an electric guitar, Hendrix-like, after all--the worst howler I've ever heard from a musician of first rank.

  • It is perfectly normal at a concert for people to walk around, fidget, and talk at the beginning of the recital until the music asserts itself.

  • An opera is a symphony concert, a choral recital, a play, a ballet, a mural, and a fashion show all at once.

  • A first encounter with Indian music is most likely to be in the pleasant surroundings of a restaurant in one of the major hotels (rather than in what might be the intimidating atmosphere of a large recital hall) where it may be performed as an accompaniment to an elegant dinner, with first-class musicians.


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