How to Use concerto in a Sentence

concerto

noun
  • Some of them go put their own firm stamp on the concerto, too.
    — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 2 June 2018
  • There are also two concertos, one for oboe and one for piano.
    — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 25 June 2018
  • Or when a breeze rushes through the trees, could that be a violin concerto?
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 25 Jan. 2018
  • But something held him back—maybe just that no pianist had ever asked him for a concerto.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Then, at a mixer one night, a classmate played part of a Mozart concerto.
    — Ray Sawhil, WIRED, 1 Dec. 1994
  • Among them, the reasons a Mozart concerto is like a baseball game.
    — Stuart Isacoff, WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • The piece is as heroic as Brahms’s concerto, though in a more playful mode.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2019
  • With more rehearsal time, could the entire concerto have been so solid?
    — Zoë Madonna, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Those stretches of ad hoc chamber music were the concerto’s high points.
    — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2020
  • Some of it seemed directly related (to the concerto) and some less so.
    — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Programming the Mozart concertos is what caused some of the upset.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
  • 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
  • This is no collegial sparring, as in a concerto by Mozart or Beethoven.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Sure, concertos and recitals are great, but how about something big that combines an orchestra, choir and vocal soloists?
    — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 8 Sep. 2019
  • This is meant not as a concerto in which the soloist stands as an individual against the masses but, rather, as a partner.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • This detail sits like a concerto’s melody on the top of the great orchestral workings of global politics.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Everything has to flow, everything has to follow from the next song — like a musical concerto — in a way.
    — Al Shipley, SPIN, 23 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • In the sunroom, a boy played concertos on the violin, signalling that this was not an ordinary weekday lunch.
    — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 3 July 2026
  • Mamora will play a concerto with the DCS next concert season.
    — Dallas News, 25 June 2022
  • Ax’s piano sneaks in as a junior partner, politely turning over its concerto to a colleague.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • The six concertos Bartok wrote are exquisite.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The work follows the traditional three-movement structure for a concerto but clearly sets the soloist up as the focus.
    — Jessica Rudman, courant.com, 7 Dec. 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
  • Both the album and the concerto remain rooted in the apartment building that sparked his imagination.
    — Megan Fitzgerald, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The Rachmaninoff concerto that inspired the movie Shine, about a pianist who goes insane trying to play it?
    — Jaron Lanier, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Schwarz said that Mejia’s contemporary concerto pairs well with Ravel’s piece, which opens the program.
    — Megan Fitzgerald, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026

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