How to Use concerto in a Sentence

concerto

noun

• 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
• Then, at a mixer one night, a classmate played part of a Mozart concerto.
  — Ray Sawhil, WIRED, 1 Dec. 1994
• Programming the Mozart concertos is what caused some of the upset.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
• 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
• As the tour rollicks on, its tone — and Wang’s demeanor — morphs with each stop, like a concerto building to its crescendo.
  — Deborah Vankin, latimes.com, 26 May 2017
• 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
• This is him really trying to be the great hero and to take on the mantle of Mozart and to write the biggest and most powerful piano concerto of the time.
  — Martina Schimitschek, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 May 2017
• 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
• 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
• This final evening of my visit to Tanglewood rounded out with the two concertos, both of which were delights in their own way.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
• But his Mozart concerto (No. 22), while tasteful, was a bit too low-energy.
  — Dallas News, 14 June 2022
• If the Mozart concerto that followed represented Uchida the performer, the rest of the festival showed her influence as a mentor.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 11 June 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024