What's the difference between concert and orchestra?

Concert


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.
  • (v. t.) To plan; to devise; to arrange.
  • (v. i.) To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.
  • (v. t.) Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action.
  • (v. t.) Musical accordance or harmony; concord.
  • (v. t.) A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In concert with TF expressed by monocytes and macrophages this endothelial cell procoagulant activity may play a role in the pathogenesis of thrombotic disease.
  • (2) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
  • (3) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
  • (4) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
  • (5) Used in concert, insulin with EGF and insulin with FGF acted synergistically in stimulating DNA synthesis 20-fold and 40-fold, respectively.
  • (6) Joe Gregory, parked outside the arena while waiting to pick up his girlfriend and her sister from the concert, captured its impact on his car’s dashcam.
  • (7) By moving an electronic pen over a digitizing tablet, the subject could explore a line drawing stored in memory; on the display screen a portion of the drawing appeared to move behind a stationary aperture, in concert with the movement of the pen.
  • (8) All of these changes, in concert or alone, are capable of impairing a woman's sex life.
  • (9) Dali Tambo [son of exiled ANC president Oliver] approached me to form a British wing of Artists Against Apartheid, and we did loads of concerts, leading up to a huge event on Clapham Common in 1986 that attracted a quarter of a million people.
  • (10) The results presented refute arguments that these enzymes proceed by a concerted mechansim and support the intermediacy of aminoacyladenylates.
  • (11) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest French police officers take security measures around the Bataclan concert hall.
  • (13) A second level of concerted evolution occurs within the functional L1 sequences in a pattern that did not meet our expectations for selfish DNA.
  • (14) The next phase of the government's work on early years intervention must therefore be in concert with practitioners and investors, so as to elicit more detail about the specific results that government look to realise, and the timeframes for those results.
  • (15) Until recently, the vast majority of cases have been managed surgically, and a concerted effort needs to be made to evaluate the role of chemoradiotherapy and preoperative radiotherapy as therapeutic modalities.
  • (16) The observed relaxation times are strongly dependent on the concentration of Mg(ClO4)2 with a distinct maximum at the transition point, in accordance with a concerted mechanism involving only the B and Z states.
  • (17) Meanwhile he is preparing a new double piano concerto by Kevin Volans with the Labèque sisters for a concert at the Edinburgh festival next week, and he tells me with a glint in his eye about ideas for the next two seasons: concert performances of Don Giovanni this October, more Brahms symphonies, and more Berlioz – an ambitious plan to realise the gigantic drama of Roméo and Juliette on a chamber-orchestral scale, following up his rapturously received performances of L'Enfance du Christ in February.
  • (18) As part of a concerted effort to avoid the in danger listing, the Queensland government came up with an alternative plan to dump the sediment within an enclosed area of the Caley Valley wetlands, which is considered nationally important habitat for more than 15 species of migratory birds.
  • (19) Konoplyanka had already thudded a free-kick against the upright, with Joe Hart and the entire City defence anticipating a cross, before the Ukraine international opened the scoring on the half-hour, capping off a 10-minute spell of concerted pressure.
  • (20) We deduce that in ubiquitin genes, concerted evolution involves both unequal crossover and gene conversion, and that the average time since two repeated units within the polyubiquitin locus most recently shared a common ancestor is approximately 38 million years (Myr) in mammals, but perhaps only 11 Myr in Drosophila.

Orchestra


Definition:

  • (n.) The space in a theater between the stage and the audience; -- originally appropriated by the Greeks to the chorus and its evolutions, afterward by the Romans to persons of distinction, and by the moderns to a band of instrumental musicians.
  • (n.) The place in any public hall appropriated to a band of instrumental musicians.
  • (n.) Loosely: A band of instrumental musicians performing in a theater, concert hall, or other place of public amusement.
  • (n.) Strictly: A band suitable for the performance of symphonies, overtures, etc., as well as for the accompaniment of operas, oratorios, cantatas, masses, and the like, or of vocal and instrumental solos.
  • (n.) A band composed, for the largest part, of players of the various viol instruments, many of each kind, together with a proper complement of wind instruments of wood and brass; -- as distinguished from a military or street band of players on wind instruments, and from an assemblage of solo players for the rendering of concerted pieces, such as septets, octets, and the like.
  • (n.) The instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Here's Munich's Philharmonic Orchestra composing and writing a song for F.C.
  • (2) The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Francois-Xavier Roth in 2007.
  • (3) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
  • (4) As Brooklyn-based Sudanese vocalist Alsarah put it: "We came in as separate musicians, but we're now creating a little orchestra with a new sound – a Nile sound."
  • (5) He opens the residency on 23 June with Ludwig van Beethoven , a composer he has never performed in London with this orchestra.
  • (6) The plans also follow the high-profile interruption by protesters of a performance by the St Louis Symphony Orchestra.
  • (7) "Little by little the vast orchestra of life, the chorus of the natural world, is in the process of being quietened.
  • (8) Photograph: Popperfoto The director, Paul Andrew Williams, best known for the acclaimed L ondon to Brighton , is a refreshingly unpretentious and unflappable director, despite having had to conduct an orchestra of several languages and locations.
  • (9) In a deconsecrated Mayfair church lit with Parisian-style globe lamps, Ronnie Scott's orchestra played jazz standards as waiters in traditional black linen aprons circulated with champagne.
  • (10) There was a long-standing anomaly that while the in-house symphony orchestras and the music broadcasts, including the Proms, were administered by Drummond's department, all the scheduling was in the hands of the controller of Radio 3, a post then held by Ian McIntyre, a journalist with no great sympathy for music.
  • (11) Strauss uses his vast orchestra to depict the experiences of his character on the mountain: a distant hunting party (listen for the 12 offstage horns), waterfalls, meadows, a dark, threatening forest, losing the path, the triumphant view from the summit and the best storm in music since Rossini's William Tell Overture (listen out for the wind machine).
  • (12) In 1936 Lee was briefly drummer with trumpeter Buck Clayton's Fourteen Gentlemen of Harlem and later toured with singer Ethel Waters's orchestra.
  • (13) The existence of two leading orchestras in one broadcasting organisation is a legacy of the allied occupation of Germany after the second world war.
  • (14) Their Prom in 2007 was the event of the decade in this country: a gig that transcended all the usual boundaries of a classical concert, such was the interest generated by the story behind the orchestra, and the commitment of its players.
  • (15) In attempting to fight off closure in the past couple of years, the orchestra had reached a new audience by playing concerts at community centres.
  • (16) Nick Clegg, 24 October 2010 Chopin's Waltz in A Minor played by Idil Biret Sunday Morning Coming Down by Johnny Cash The Cross by Prince Petit Pays by Cesária Évora Street Spirit by Radiohead Life on Mars by David Bowie Waka Waka 2010 World Cup theme, by Shakira Schubert's Impromptu No.3 in G Flat Major played by Alfred Brendel Book The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Luxury A stash of cigarettes David Cameron, 28 May 2006 Tangled Up In Blue by Bob Dylan Ernie by Benny Hill Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd Mendelssohn's On Wings of Song performed by Kiri Te Kanawa and Utah Symphony Orchestra Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead This Charming Man by The Smiths Perfect Circle by R.E.M.
  • (17) His enthusiasm for new music was balanced by an acute historical perspective and a love of young people: he greatly increased the number of appearances by youth orchestras, upping it to five in the 1993 season.
  • (18) He oversees Radio 3 , the Proms, five BBC orchestras, the BBC Singers and the choruses attached to two of the orchestras.
  • (19) All of these ensembles are founded with different values from those of a conventional orchestra.
  • (20) You're as likely to see the entire brass section of the Halle Orchestra running across the road at the interval for a swift pint as you are a room full of drunken retired policemen.