- a public performance of music
- to attend/go to a concert
- The orchestra gave a concert in Miami in January.
- a series of concerts organized by the Oxford Chamber Music Society
- a classical/rock/pop concert
- a benefit/charity concert
- in concert They're in concert at Wembley arena.
- at a concert They also performed at a concert in Rome last month.
- concert of something a concert of music by Bach
- concert by somebody/something I got dragged along to concerts by bands I hated.
- concert for somebody/something a fundraising concert for tsunami victims
- a concert hall
- a concert pianist/tour/series
Collocations MusicMusicListening- listen to/enjoy/love/be into music/classical music/jazz/pop/hip-hop, etc.
- listen to the radio/an MP3 player/a CD
- put on/play a CD/a song/some music
- turn down/up the music/radio/volume/bass
- go to a concert/festival/gig/performance/recital
- copy/burn/rip music/a CD/a DVD
- download/stream music/an album/a song/a video/a playlist
- play a musical instrument/the piano/percussion/a note/a riff/the melody/a concerto/a duet/by ear
- sing an anthem/a ballad/a solo/an aria/the blues/in a choir/soprano/alto/tenor/bass/out of tune
- hum a tune/a theme tune/a lullaby
- accompany a singer/choir
- strum a chord/guitar
- form/start/get together/join/quit/leave a band
- give a performance/concert/recital
- do a concert/recital/gig
- play a concert/gig/festival/venue
- perform (British English) at/in a concert/(especially North American English) a concert
- appear at a festival/live
- go on/embark on a (world) tour
- write/compose music/a ballad/a melody/a tune/a song/a theme song/an opera/a symphony
- land/get/sign a record deal
- be signed to/be dropped by a record company
- record/release/put out an album/a single/a CD
- be top of/top the charts
- get to/go straight to/go straight in at/enter the charts at number one
Extra ExamplesTopics Musica1- He will be giving his farewell concert as Music Director of the Ulster Orchestra.
- She sang at a gala concert to celebrate the music of Stephen Sondheim.
- The King attended a gala concert at the Royal Festival Hall.
- The band is putting on its biggest concert of the year.
- The orchestra performs its final concert of the season tomorrow.
- We're organizing a concert for charity.
- a concert of military music
- They performed a concert of music by Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev.
- We saw Raye in concert at Reading Festival.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- sell-out
- sold-out
- …
- series
- attend
- go to
- watch
- …
- hall
- platform
- venue
- …
- at a/the concert
- concert of
- concert for
- …
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘unite’): from French concerter, from Italian concertare ‘harmonize’. The noun use, dating from the early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘a combination of voices or sounds’), is from French concert, from Italian concerto, from concertare.
Idioms
See concert in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee concert in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishin concert with somebody/something
- (formal) working together with somebody/something
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