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Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend
Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend is a weekly comedy interview podcast launched November 19, 2018 by Team Coco and Earwolf, hosted by Conan O'Brien with Sona Movsesian and Matt Gourley; first guest Will Ferrell, over 230 million downloads, sold to SiriusXM for $150 million.
Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Barbarian, or Conan the Cimmerian, is Robert E. Howard's sword-and-sorcery hero, debuting in Weird Tales in December 1932, set in the Hyborian Age, later famous through Marvel comics, the 1982 Schwarzenegger film, and games.
Conan the Barbarian (1982 film)
Conan the Barbarian is a 1982 American sword-and-sorcery film directed by John Milius and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, based on Robert E. Howard's 1930s pulp stories.
Conan the Barbarian (2011 film)
Conan the Barbarian (2011) is a Marcus Nispel sword-and-sorcery film starring Jason Momoa as Robert E. Howard's Conan, with Stephen Lang, Rachel Nichols, Rose McGowan, and Ron Perlman; shot entirely in Bulgaria on a roughly $90 million budget and released August 2011 to negative reviews.
Conan the Destroyer
Conan the Destroyer is a 1984 American sword-and-sorcery film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the sequel to Conan the Barbarian (1982), released by Universal Pictures.
Conceição Lima
Conceição Lima, born Maria da Conceição de Deus Lima (1961–2026), was a Santomean poet and BBC journalist whose four poetry collections explore colonial history and independence.
Concentration (game show)
Concentration is an American NBC game show (1958–1973, 3,770 episodes) where contestants match hidden prize pairs to reveal and solve a rebus puzzle; revived with Jack Narz (1973–1978) and as Classic Concentration with Alex Trebek (1987–1991).
Concept album
Concept album: an album whose tracks share a single idea, theme, or narrative. Also called a unified or thematic album; forerunners include Sinatra's 1950s LPs and Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads, with Sgt. Pepper (1967) generally recognized as the first rock example.
Concept art
Concept art, or concept artwork, is exploratory visual work that helps film, animation, and game teams test characters, environments, and designs before committing to final assets.
Conceptismo
Conceptismo is a literary style of the Spanish Baroque, flourishing mainly in 17th-century Spain, characterized by concision and witty concepts, or agudezas; its principal exponents were Quevedo and Gracián.
Conceptual photography
Conceptual photography is photography in which the idea or concept behind the work matters more than the image's aesthetic or documentary qualities, emerging with Conceptual Art in the mid-1960s.
Conceptualism in Russian poetry
Conceptualism (концептуализм) in Russian poetry is an unofficial postmodernist movement of the 1970s in which poets reworked clichés of Soviet discourse, associated with Dmitry Prigov, Lev Rubinstein, and Vsevolod Nekrasov.
Concert
Concert: a live music performance before an audience, from solo recitals to orchestral and popular events. Traces its 1672 London paid-audience origins, 18th-century rise, classical concert crisis, ageing audiences, and streaming.
Concert band
A concert band, also known as a wind symphony, symphonic band, or wind ensemble, is a large ensemble of woodwinds, brass, and percussion that performs in auditorium concerts, distinct from a marching band.
Concert dance
Concert dance (performance dance, theatre dance in the UK) is choreographed dance staged for a nonparticipating audience, spanning ballet, modern, contemporary, and tap, distinct from social and commercial dance.
Concert for George
Concert for George: memorial tribute to George Harrison held 29 November 2002 at London's Royal Albert Hall, organized by Olivia Harrison and Eric Clapton; Grammy-winning 2003 film and album featuring McCartney, Starr, Petty, Lynne and Monty Python.
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 Heroes
Concert Heroes is an American independent comedy film directed by Joseph A. Nunez and starring Chris Kattan, about a bar-band videographer filming his favorite rock band's farewell tour.
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.