Example sentences for: symphony

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

  • This one--an 1888 symphony by a French Romantic composer--is called an "interesting failure" (Bernard Holland, the New York Times ). Its overwrought, "meandering" score (Martin Bernheimer, Newsday ) is accompanied by a highly praised and newly commissioned narration of the Psyché myth by playwright John Guare ( Six Degrees of Separation ).

  • Strip the battle scene from a cue written for a battle scene, and you get not mere descriptive battle music but an abstract shard of symphony.

  • "I would say the Moody Blues and the London Symphony Orchestra.

  • In a landmark 1968 work, the wryly named Sinfonia , Berio made a musical palimpsest, thickly layering his new music and a jumble of spoken words over the foundation of a Mahler symphony.

  • The Boston Symphony was honed and polished by the Russian exile Serge Koussevitsky, who conducted 100 concerts a year for 25 years until 1949 and was midwife to the creation of great works by Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Copland.


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