All 4 Uses of
symphony
in
Childhood's End
- Incidentally we've got a very fine symphony orchestra-probably among the world's half-dozen best.†
Chpt 15 *
- The Inspector came through the symphony concert with flying colours, which was a good deal more than could be said for many human members of the audience.†
Chpt 17
- The only concession to popular taste bad been Stravinsky's "Symphony of Psalms": the rest of the programme was aggressively modernistic.†
Chpt 17
- When he was not performing himself, he played tapes of the great symphonies and concertos, so that the villa was never silent.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
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(symphony) a long and complex piece of music -- typically for full orchestra in four parts
or: an orchestra that plays such; or such a performance
or: any harmonious composition of complex parts as in "a symphony for the palate."