symphony
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This led to the proliferation of the regional theater movement, said Eustis, as well as that of symphony orchestras and ballet companies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
China’s Xi Jinping complains that AI should be “a symphony of international cooperation.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
To keep shelves in the Manhattan location stocked, Aldi runs three to four of these trips every night, calling the operation a "logistical symphony".
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
The show at the American Folk Art Museum, curated by Emelie Gevalt and Caroline Culp, opens with a symphony in softness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Grandmaster Miguel Najdorf, seated on the sidelines, likened the next game, the sixth, to a Mozart symphony.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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Stravinsky had spent nearly two decades working inside self-imposed forms—neoclassical symphonies and ballets built on borrowed material.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
A box set of Beethoven’s nine symphonies is, though not indispensable—there are hundreds of recorded cycles already—evidence that his orchestra is among the world’s top ensembles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Tense discussions of life-altering events are matched by the diegetic decibels of smooth jazz or string symphonies.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2025
For more than three decades — beginning at a time when live performances of these symphonies, each a psychical experience, were not commonplace — the local Mahler Society held annual “Mahlerthons.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025
Meandering, non-narrative prose or poetry, like musical symphonies, would not find their literary equivalents until James Joyce’s Ulysses or T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, both published in 1922.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Vocabulary lists containing symphony
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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