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symphony

[sim-fuh-nee] / ˈsɪm fə ni /
NOUN
band
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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

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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