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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
concert
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a charity match/concert/show etc
▪ The band appeared at a charity concert for free.
a theatre/concert ticket
▪ The special rate includes theatre tickets and transport from the hotel to the theatre.
concert hall
promenade concert
sporting/conference/concert etc venue
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ They had just done a big concert at the Albert Hall with an orchestra for an album called Snowgoose.
▪ Another big pop concert, eh!
free
▪ Debates and discussion groups were organised, and a free concert was held in the evening.
▪ Instead, many pit musicians move outdoors during the summer months for free downtown concerts in Grant Park.
▪ And then there were the free pop concerts which attracted as many as a quarter of a million hippies.
▪ Dennis told me that Juilliard gave free student concerts every week.
▪ How about a free concert, Morrissey?
▪ The park has been closed since early Saturday, when the pipe bomb exploded during a free concert.
▪ In January 1994, he agreed to give free concerts as compensation for a previous conviction on drunken driving charges.
live
▪ This is a brilliant live concert by the group with Taylor, Fdsell and Mouzon.
▪ The final episode of the season will feature the group in a live concert.
▪ An agent deals with live gigs, concerts and touring.
▪ But at a live Dead concert, the repetition is still quite different.
▪ Bush too was being realistic when he made his move to stage her first live concerts.
▪ But this new version, taken from two live concerts in the Berlin Philharmonie, is special in several ways, too.
▪ Shabba, who earns £2 million a year from his raunchy live concerts, is now at No. 23 with Mr Loverman.
outdoor
▪ Last night he had a choice between a quiet evening at home and the outdoor concert.
▪ Event: Outdoor orchestral concert with fireworks.
rock
▪ If you wonder where they got the money, and I always do wonder, Rob promotes rock concerts.
▪ But the biggest thing for me was that this was the first time the cops ever escorted me into a rock concert.
▪ The scene in the clubhouse felt like backstage at the Oscars, or a big-time rock concert.
▪ Few blacks showed up at rock festivals and concert halls.
▪ They saw their share of drug parties, rock concerts and anti-war demonstrations.
■ NOUN
band
▪ Once a week there is also a brass band concert.
▪ He was also the conductor at the Sunday-night band concerts in the park.
▪ Free activities: Open air brass band concerts are very popular and are held on a regular basis.
▪ It was seven-thirty, and the band concert would be starting soon.
▪ During the summer, once a month, the Pocklington council arrange band concerts.
▪ Why do I have to go to the band concert with you?
▪ Would it clear in time for the band concert this afternoon?
▪ Free activities: There is a weekly brass band concert, weather permitting.
benefit
▪ He later played a benefit concert in aid of the protest.
▪ Browne played a benefit concert at Zellerbach Hall on the UC-Berkeley campus Thursday night.
▪ This group also organized musicians to play benefit concerts for the campaign.
▪ This either takes the form of a benefit concert or a private party.
▪ I hope they don't ask me to come and do a benefit concert up there.
charity
▪ It was the scene of a failed assassination attempt on the royal couple at a charity concert nine years ago.
▪ Voice over Oxfam is adamant that the charity concert will not attract the hippies back to the area.
▪ The end came this year during a charity concert.
party
▪ But what use is that where a concert party is suspected?
▪ The last accomplishment and the saw-playing were a feature of the concert parties.
▪ Just what does a concert party mean?
▪ If the parties are in any doubt they should consult the Panel to establish whether a concert party exists.
▪ A concert party simply describes an alliance between two or more investors.
▪ Market purchases Purchases by the offeror or its concert parties of the target's shares on the London Stock Exchange.
▪ Being in a concert party whose members are buying shares is neither wrong nor against the law.
performance
▪ But then he gave up concert performances to retire to his home in Texas.
▪ In the fall Amelia went to a concert performance of the Philadelphia Symphony.
▪ Even so, the band never felt at ease on film, even straight filming of concert performances.
pianist
▪ The programme reveals that the actor was a notable pianist and once considered becoming a concert pianist.
▪ She was studying to become a concert pianist.
▪ The young concert pianist had spent fewer hours reaching concert standard than he had spent achieving a mediocre amateur level.
▪ Her sister Martine, who was a concert pianist, had a coming-out party at the Plaza.
▪ The concert pianist did exactly the opposite.
▪ The man was a visiting Texan who was in Britain as manager of a fellow countryman, a concert pianist.
pop
▪ And then there were the free pop concerts which attracted as many as a quarter of a million hippies.
▪ After all, they argued, the State doesn't subsidise auto racing, hunting and pop concerts.
▪ Every night, he seemed to go out to posh nightclubs, to restaurants and to major pop concerts.
▪ Another big pop concert, eh!
▪ Several small incidents, one revolving around a pop concert, incited more students into action.
▪ After a one-and-a-half-hour pop concert the political programme began.
ticket
▪ Look out for a special Beverley Craven concert ticket promotion on packs now!
▪ They sold massive amounts of albums and concert tickets, but were never a singles band.
▪ They need to find the latest popular artists who are going to sell concert tickets.
▪ This holds especially true because concert ticket prices are also setting records.
▪ Prices start at £199 for a weekend in Cologne including return flights, accommodation and a concert ticket.
▪ But while Strait and McEntire continue to endure on the charts, Haggard and Jones are most effective selling concert tickets.
▪ I found myself wondering who that second concert ticket was intended for.
▪ Within the city, call 0131-557-1700 for information about accommodations, theater and concert tickets, tours and maps.
tour
▪ We talked a lot and made great plans for a concert tour but in the end the dates weren't right.
venue
▪ Time allowed 00:21 Read in studio One of the country's best-known concert venues is up for sale.
▪ Seating 500 it provides a centre of services of all denominations and a concert venue.
■ VERB
act
▪ The calcium waves spreading through glial cells may constitute a long-range signalling network acting in concert with conventional neuronal networks.
▪ When they act in concert, the individual soon begins to feel stretched to the limit.
▪ In so doing he seems to have been acting in concert with a Roman official called Seronatus.
▪ Most of the religious groups did not know how to act in concert or tolerate each other.
▪ The failure of the 12 to act in concert does not give much ground for optimism.
▪ The Regulation also applies to the acquisition of joint control by a number of companies acting in concert.
▪ It prevents repeat bids within a year and bans bidders from acting in undisclosed concert with other people.
attend
▪ I always attended their concerts to try and work out how he got this effect.
▪ On the other hand, if you attended the other concert, perhaps the evening was more entertaining.
▪ But he had barely attended a professional orchestral concert before he went to university.
▪ Her mind changed when she attended the January concert.
▪ Hallin rarely attends concerts and it can sometimes be days before the two parties make contact with each other.
▪ We are always invited to attend concerts and plays performed by older members of the Junior School.
give
▪ I gave my first concert at the age of nine, and people were very kind.
▪ Dennis told me that Juilliard gave free student concerts every week.
▪ They organised events for charity, gave concerts, formed clubs, and were generally beginning to become part of the administration.
▪ In January 1994, he agreed to give free concerts as compensation for a previous conviction on drunken driving charges.
▪ The Mayrhofen Brass Band gives regular open-air concerts in fine weather.
▪ So he took up the violin as well, and now he gives concerts on both instruments with pianist Mari Tomizuka.
▪ Free activities: The brass band gives regular concerts, there are guided walks and even occasional windsurfing regattas!
▪ Howarth has got a string quartet going at the Lab and they gave a concert there.
hold
▪ The Norman church is holding concerts on Friday and Sunday with a parish dance on Saturday.
▪ This holds especially true because concert ticket prices are also setting records.
▪ The Art Gallery holds frequent exhibitions and concerts.
include
▪ Magee College hosts a programme of special events that includes art exhibitions and concerts by folk musicians of local and national reputation.
▪ Other events include festivals, concerts and competitions.
▪ Vienna's trump cards include concerts in the palaces where Mozart made music.
perform
▪ One evening we went to a play - a stage production of an Agatha Christie thriller performed by a local concert group.
▪ The Kirov elected to perform it in concert.
▪ Last year, he performed 65 concerts.
play
▪ In high season the village brass band plays regular concerts and there are waterski displays most weeks.
▪ The band still plays 100 concerts a year.
▪ In each case it is the revised versions which are to be played in this concert.
▪ Browne played a benefit concert at Zellerbach Hall on the UC-Berkeley campus Thursday night.
▪ This group also organized musicians to play benefit concerts for the campaign.
▪ Q.. Are you nervous when you play at concerts?
▪ A girl was playing Chopin in the concert room as Erika went into the lounge.
▪ We gather that he comes from the university where they are now playing the concert.
present
▪ On those occasions the CHAzn presents a veritable concert of liturgical selections, often with a choir to assist him.
▪ The Three Tenors presented their first major concert in 1990 in what city?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
benefit concert/performance/match
▪ Browne played a benefit concert at Zellerbach Hall on the UC-Berkeley campus Thursday night.
▪ He later played a benefit concert in aid of the protest.
▪ Last August, after leaving a rehearsal for the benefit performance, Hicks witnessed a stabbing and wound up being the suspect.
▪ Most significant for a county player was the opportunity to have a benefit match.
▪ This group also organized musicians to play benefit concerts for the campaign.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Amanda has a solo in the school chorus concert this year.
▪ On Friday we're going to a concert of modern African music.
▪ There's a free band concert in Reid Park this afternoon.
▪ Various performers will present a concert of Broadway music to benefit AIDS charities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But this night was different form the Sunday-night concerts.
▪ Call the Rialto concert hotline, 740-0126, for more information.
▪ He or she will, they know, respond to events in concert with the vision and known values.
▪ I wanted to talk to the famous pianist before his concert.
▪ Magee College hosts a programme of special events that includes art exhibitions and concerts by folk musicians of local and national reputation.
▪ Oh, and 45 world-famous orchestras, 21 conductors, 18 concert pianists and the Nobel Prize Committee.
▪ Over the past four years the concerts have raised more than £1,300 and have become one of the highlights of the village year.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Concert

Concert \Con"cert\ (k[o^]n"s[~e]rt), n. [F. concert, It. concerto, conserto, fr. concertare. See Concert, v. t.]

  1. Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action.

    All these discontents, how ruinous soever, have arisen from the want of a due communication and concert.
    --Swift.

  2. Musical accordance or harmony; concord.

    Let us in concert to the season sing.
    --Cowper.

  3. A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part.

    Visit by night your lady's chamber window With some sweet concert.
    --Shak.

    And boding screech owls make the concert full.
    --Shak.

    Concert pitch. See under Pitch.

Concert

Concert \Con*cert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Concerted; p. pr. & vb. n. Concerting.] [F. concerter, It. concertare, conertare, prob. from L. consertus, p. p. of conserere to join together; con- + serere to join together, influenced by concertare to contend; con- + centare to strive; properly, to try to decide; fr. cernere to distinguish. See Series, and cf. Concern.]

  1. To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.

    It was concerted to begin the siege in March.
    --Bp. Burnet.

  2. To plan; to devise; to arrange.

    A commander had more trouble to concert his defense before the people than to plan . . . the campaign.
    --Burke.

Concert

Concert \Con*cert"\, v. i. To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.

The ministers of Denmark were appointed to concert with Talbot.
--Bp. Burnet

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
concert

1660s, "agreement, accord, harmony," from French concert (16c.), from Italian concerto "concert, harmony," from concertare "bring into agreement," in Latin "to contend, contest, dispute," from com- "with" (see com-) + certare "to contend, strive," frequentative of certus, variant past participle of cernere "separate, decide" (see crisis).\n

\nBefore the word entered English, meaning shifted from "to strive against" to "to strive alongside." Sense of "public musical performance" is 1680s. But Klein considers this too much of a stretch and suggests Latin concentare "to sing together" (from con- + cantare "to sing") as the source of the Italian word in the musical sense.

Wiktionary
concert

n. 1 (context uncountable English) Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action. 2 (context uncountable English) Musical accordance or harmony; concord. 3 (context countable English) A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part. vb. 1 To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation. 2 To plan; to devise; to arrange. 3 To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.

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WordNet
concert

n. a performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging

concert

  1. v. contrive (a plan) by mutual agreement

  2. settle by agreement; "concert one's differences"

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Wikipedia
Concert

A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience. A recital is a concert by a soloist or small group which follows a program, such as featuring the works of a single composer ( organ recital). A recitalist is a musician who gives frequent recitals. The invention of the solo piano recital has been attributed to Franz Liszt.

The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, choir, or band. Concerts are held in a wide variety and size of settings, from private houses and small nightclubs, dedicated concert halls, entertainment centres and parks to large multipurpose buildings, and even sports stadiums. Indoor concerts held in the largest venues are sometimes called arena concerts or amphitheatre concerts. Informal names for a concert include show and gig.

Regardless of venue, musicians usually perform on a stage. Concerts often require live event support with professional audio equipment. Before recorded music, concerts provided the main opportunity to hear musicians play.

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Usage examples of "concert".

I fancy it was concerted between Turvey, Abney, and the head-cook himself.

Most of this illegal income came from selling promotional copies of the Concert for Bangla Desh album, taking money which would have otherwise gone to the charity if those albums had been bought through normal channels.

Miles in the distance, from faraway Anaheim Stadium, came the sounds of a Blue Cheer concert.

Paul had run into his old friend Bruce Welch, the rhythm guitarist with the Shadows, backstage at a Cliff Richard concert at the Talk of the Town and told him he was looking for somewhere to go for a short holiday.

I had looked down on a bigger crowd when I played Chopin at the Barberton concert, but a boxing crowd is different, much more raw or something.

The thought of a concerted Bashkir commercial push into the Korrush made him want to scream.

To be acclaimed on the concert stage as the incomparable Norma Bellini was one thing.

The king of Prussia having cleared all his part of Silesia, except the town of Schweidnitz, which he circumscribed with a blockade, sent detachments from his army cantoned in the neighbourhood of Breslau, to penetrate into the Austrian or southern part of Silesia, where they surprised Troppau and Jaggernsdorf, while he himself remained at Breslau, entertaining his officers with concerts of music.

The state harness for the cavalry of the Carinthian Jaegers is to be collected the same week as the concert - but he comes out occasionally to stand on the pavement and listens to Sigismund practising.

I read of a concert pianist who could play the most complex concerti from memory yet who could not point to middle C.

The treasury was always supplied from the proceeds of these concerts and the supply of money never failed, to my knowledge, during my sojourn in Dedham.

While the rebellion was raging we laid aside oratorio work and studied patriotic music suitable to the concerts that we were called upon to give to raise funds for the soldiers.

Our successful concerts in aid of the soldiers, the many Sabbaths we worshiped and sang together, made us an harmonious band of singers.

The children were at school and I still held my church position and began to sing at concerts and entertainments.

These were busy days, what with concerts, singing in churches and at funerals, rehearsals, dressmaking and roomers.