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concert overture

noun

  1. See overture

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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