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  • noun Plural form of symphony.

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Examples

  • Levine sold it as a chance to rethink the symphonies from the ground up, rather than simply tack them on to programs as a rehearsal-management technique, which I thought was pretty good spin, at the very least.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • Levine sold it as a chance to rethink the symphonies from the ground up, rather than simply tack them on to programs as a rehearsal-management technique, which I thought was pretty good spin, at the very least.

    The Boston Sound Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • No matter if the business of personal symphonies is clearly an open invitation to any musical charlatan with an ability to please a crowd.

    On Faith Hal Duncan 2008

  • No matter if the business of personal symphonies is clearly an open invitation to any musical charlatan with an ability to please a crowd.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • Now I don't know if this is a mistake or what, but I just spotted that you can download all nine of Ralph Vaughan Williams 'symphonies from the iTunes UK music store for the princely sum of £7.99 - that's 7.5 hours at about £1 per hour!

    Archive 2005-12-01 Jonathan 2005

  • Television that offers positive gay couples and foreign programming and artsy-fartsy symphonies is counterrevolutionary.

    February 2005 2005

  • The other oddity of the nine symphonies is that the number became a bit of a curse.

    What do you mean, you've never heard the Eroica symphony? Jonathan 2005

  • Now I don't know if this is a mistake or what, but I just spotted that you can download all nine of Ralph Vaughan Williams 'symphonies from the iTunes UK music store for the princely sum of £7.99 - that's 7.5 hours at about £1 per hour!

    Bargain over at iTMS Jonathan 2005

  • The other oddity of the nine symphonies is that the number became a bit of a curse.

    Archive 2005-06-01 Jonathan 2005

  • GREENBERG: I think for Mahler his symphonies were his operas, his all-inclusive artworks.

    The Operatic Punch in Mahler's Symphonies 2008

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