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Concert hall acoustics
Concert hall acoustics: architectural acoustics for unamplified music, founded by Sabine's 1900 reverberation formula and Boston Symphony Hall; key measures are reverberation time (1.8–2.6 s ideal), early lateral reflections, and shoebox versus vineyard hall shapes.
Concert halls in Australia
Australia's major concert halls include the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, Perth Concert Hall, and Elisabeth Murdoch Hall in Melbourne, with Sydney and Perth each undergoing A$150 million renewals.
Concert halls in Austria and Central Europe
A survey of major purpose-built concert halls in Austria and Central Europe, centered on Vienna's Musikverein and Konzerthaus and reaching to Prague's Rudolfinum and Zurich's Tonhalle.
Concert halls in France, Italy and the Low Countries
A survey of concert halls in France, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands, covering Amsterdam's Concertgebouw of 1888, the Philharmonie de Paris opened in 2015, and Rome's Auditorium Parco della Musica.
Concert halls in Japan
Concert halls in Japan are dedicated classical-music venues such as Suntory Hall in Tokyo and The Symphony Hall in Osaka, with metropolitan Tokyo alone holding more than 20 major venues.
Concert halls in Latin America
Latin America's concert-hall landscape includes colonial and modern venues, such as Buenos Aires' Teatro Colón (1908) and São Paulo's Sala São Paulo (1999).
Concert halls in Southern and Eastern Europe
A survey of notable concert halls in Spain, Greece, and the Baltic states, from Barcelona's 1908 Palau de la Música Catalana to Latvia's Great Amber, opened in 2015.
Concert halls in the Nordic countries
The major concert halls of the Nordic countries, organized since 1983 in the Nordic Concert Halls league of 18 members with combined capacity over 70,000, including Konserthuset Stockholm and Harpa.
Concert pitch
Concert pitch, also called A440, is the standard tuning reference fixing the A above middle C at 440 Hz under ISO 16:1975, adopted at the 1939 London conference after the 1859 French diapason normal of 435 Hz; orchestras often tune to 442 Hz and Baroque ensembles to 415 Hz.
Concert residency
Concert residency: a run of shows by one artist at a single venue, defined by Pollstar as 10+ shows. Includes Vegas roots (Elvis 1969), Celine Dion's $681M record, Bad Bunny's 31-night San Juan run, and economics.
Concert tour
Concert tour: a linked series of concerts by an artist across multiple venues and cities, mounted to promote releases and earn live income. Covers promoters, agents, guarantees, the 85/15 split, routing, and gross benchmarks like A Bigger Bang's $558 million.
Concertgebouw
The Concertgebouw, also known as Het Concertgebouw, is a concert hall in Amsterdam opened in 1888, famed for its acoustics and home of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Concertina
Concertina: a small polygonal free-reed bellows instrument with button keys at both ends, invented by Charles Wheatstone (patent 1829). Main systems are the English, Anglo, and Duet; related to the bandoneon and Chemnitzer concertina.
Concertmaster
Concertmaster (Konzertmeister, spalla, Leader): the principal first violinist of an orchestra, second in authority to the conductor, who leads tuning, sets bowings, plays violin solos, and mediates between conductor and musicians.
Concerto
Concerto: a classical composition for one or more solo instruments with orchestra, from Italian concertare. Traces the stile concertato, concerto grosso, Vivaldi's three-movement solo form, Mozart's piano concertos, and the Romantic virtuoso concerto.
Concerto del Primo Maggio
The Concerto del Primo Maggio, also called Concertone, is a free annual May Day concert in Rome, held since 1990 and promoted by the trade unions CGIL, CISL, and UIL with RAI.
Concerto for Two Violins (Bach)
Bach's Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043, the "Bach Double": a three-movement baroque double concerto for two solo violins, strings and continuo, possibly dating from Köthen around 1719 or Leipzig around 1730, later arranged by Bach as BWV 1062.
Conchita Wurst
Conchita Wurst, stage persona of Austrian singer Tom Neuwirth (born 1988, Gmunden), created 2011; bearded drag queen who won Eurovision 2014 with "Rise Like a Phoenix" and later split into Conchita and the WURST electro project.
Concierto de Aranjuez
Concierto de Aranjuez: 1939 guitar-and-orchestra concerto by Joaquín Rodrigo, premiered Barcelona 1940 by Regino Sainz de la Maza; three movements, famous Adagio, basis of Miles Davis's Sketches of Spain.
Concrete and Gold
Concrete and Gold, ninth Foo Fighters studio album, released September 15, 2017 on Roswell/RCA; produced with pop producer Greg Kurstin at EastWest Studios, featuring Paul McCartney, and topping both the US Billboard 200 and UK album charts.
Concrete Blonde
Concrete Blonde: Los Angeles alternative rock band (formed 1982) of Johnette Napolitano and James Mankey, formerly Dream 6; known for "Joey," Bloodletting (1990), and "Everybody Knows."
Concrete Jungle (The OST)
Concrete Jungle [The OST] is a 2024 soundtrack album by Bad Omens on Sumerian Records, companion to the band's Concrete Jungle comic series; it mixes new songs, remixes, interludes, live tracks, and collaborations with ERRA, Poppy, HEALTH, and others.
Conducta
Conducta is the stage name of Collins Nemi, an English DJ and producer from Bristol who founded the label Kiwi Rekords and produced AJ Tracey's 'Ladbroke Grove'.
Conducting
Conducting is directing an orchestra or choir through gestures: beating time, cueing entries, and shaping phrasing. Hand signals date to antiquity; the word 'conductor' first appeared on a concert programme in 1820, and the profession emerged in the mid-19th century as orchestras grew.
Conductor Williams
Conductor Williams, American hip hop producer and recording artist from Kansas City, Missouri, known for Griselda (Westside Gunn "Euro Step", "BDP"), Drake's "8am in Charlotte", tag "Conductor, we have a problem!", and a former railway career.
Conejo (rapper)
Conejo is a Chicano rapper from Los Angeles, California, who recorded Latin rap since the late 1980s. He is associated with the West Adams neighborhood.
Confessions (Usher album)
Confessions is the fourth studio album by American singer Usher, released in March 2004. It sold 1.1 million copies in its first week and spent nine weeks at number one.
Confessions II
Confessions II is Madonna's 15th studio album (July 3, 2026, Warner Records), a sequel to 2005's Confessions on a Dance Floor, produced by Stuart Price as a continuous mix of 16 songs; distinct from Usher's "Confessions Part II."
Confessions on a Dance Floor
Confessions on a Dance Floor is Madonna's tenth studio album (released 15 November 2005, Warner Bros.), a continuous-mix dance-pop disco album made with Stuart Price, featuring "Hung Up" sampling ABBA; RIAA platinum, 2006 Grammy winner, with sequel Confessions II in 2026.
Confessions Tour
The Confessions Tour was Madonna's 2006 world tour supporting Confessions on a Dance Floor, grossing $194.7 million across 60 dates and being named by Guinness World Records the highest-grossing tour by a solo artist.