concert overture

British  

noun

1. See overture

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Example Sentences

Some in the audience might have been unfamiliar with this chronically underprogrammed composer, but his alluringly chromatic score had much to please them: the lush orchestration of Brahms and Romantic gestures of Tchaikovsky, tightly packaged with the breathlessness of a Dvorak concert overture.

From New York Times

With no words and barely a pause, a Lamborghini going from zero to 60 in the blink of an eye, the orchestra launched into the galloping grandeur of Szymanowski’s Concert Overture.

From New York Times

They include a concert overture by Florence B Price, who was the first black woman in the US to be recognised as a symphonic composer.

From BBC

Here he offers Mendelssohn’s “Reformation” Symphony along with the overture to Victor Hugo’s play “Ruy Blas” and the concert overture “Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage.”

From New York Times

The 1942 concert overture by the grandly named São Paulo-born Mozart Camargo Guarnieri, dedicated to Aaron Copland, was scored with no percussion except timpani.

From New York Times