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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.
Concetta Tomei
Concetta Tomei (born 1945, Kenosha, Wisconsin) is an American character actress, not related to Marisa Tomei, known for Major Lila Garreau on China Beach, Lynda Hansen on Providence, and Broadway roles in The Elephant Man and Cyrano de Bergerac.
Concha Espina
Concha Espina (Concepción Espina y Tagle, 1869–1955) was a Spanish novelist and journalist, the first Spanish woman nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, losing by one vote in 1926.
Conchata Ferrell
Conchata Ferrell (1943-2020), American character actress, best known as Berta on all 12 seasons of Two and a Half Men; three Emmy nominations (2005, 2007; L.A. Law 1992), Obie-winning stage actress.
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.
Conclave (2024 film)
Conclave is a 2024 political thriller film directed by Edward Berger, adapted from Robert Harris's 2016 novel, starring Ralph Fiennes as a cardinal running a papal conclave; it won Best Adapted Screenplay at the Oscars.
Concord Hymn
Concord Hymn is an 1837 poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson, written for Concord's Battle Monument and giving English the phrase "the shot heard round the world."
Concrete (film)
Concrete (コンクリート, Konkurito) is a 2004 Japanese drama by Hiromu Nakamura, adapted from Joji Atsumi's novel about the Junko Furuta murder; its May 2004 Ginza release was cancelled after protests before a July 2004 Shibuya opening.
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 art in Brazil
Concrete art in Brazil (concretismo) was a 1950s geometric abstract movement treating art as a concrete object, led by São Paulo's Ruptura group and Rio's Grupo Frente.
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 Cowboy
Concrete Cowboy is a 2020 American Western drama directed by Ricky Staub, based on Greg Neri's novel Ghetto Cowboy, starring Idris Elba and Caleb McLaughlin as an estranged father and son among Philadelphia's real Fletcher Street urban cowboys; released on Netflix April 2, 2021.
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.
Concrete Market
Concrete Market (콘크리트 마켓) is a 2025 South Korean post-apocalyptic thriller by director Hong Ki-won and writer Kwak Jae-min, starring Lee Jae-in, Hong Kyung, and Jung Man-sik. Released as a 122-minute film on December 3, 2025 and as a seven-episode Wavve series December 23–30, it is set in the Concrete Utopia universe, where canned food becomes currency in the last surviving apartment complex.
Concrete poetry
Concrete poetry is poetry in which the visual arrangement of words carries as much meaning as their content, an international movement emerging in Brazil and West Germany in the 1950s.
Concrete Utopia (콘크리트 유토피아)
Concrete Utopia (콘크리트 유토피아) is a 2023 South Korean disaster thriller by Um Tae-hwa, adapted from the webtoon Cheerful Outcast, starring Lee Byung-hun, Park Seo-jun, and Park Bo-young as Seoul earthquake survivors in the last standing apartment block; it sold about 3.85 million admissions and was South Korea's 96th Academy Awards submission.
Concretism
Concretism (Portuguese: Concretismo) was a Brazilian avant-garde movement of the 1950s, founded in São Paulo by the Noigandres poets Augusto de Campos, Haroldo de Campos, and Décio Pignatari.
Concussion (2015 film)
Concussion (2015), Peter Landesman's biographical drama starring Will Smith as neuropathologist Bennet Omalu, based on Jeanne Marie Laskas's GQ article "Game Brain"; released by Sony December 25, 2015.
Condensed milk
Condensed milk, also called sweetened condensed milk, is cow's milk concentrated by water removal with sugar added as preservative; distinct from unsweetened evaporated milk, which is sterilized. Invented commercially by Gail Borden in 1856.
Condiment
Condiment: a prepared sauce, relish, seasoning, or spice mixture added to food after preparation to enhance flavor; includes ketchup, mustard, soy sauce, chutney; classified under Codex Alimentarius category 12.2, distinct from seasonings added during cooking.
Condition Report
Condition Report is a 2000 diptych by American artist Glenn Ligon reproducing his 1988 painting Untitled (I Am a Man), one panel annotated by a conservator.
Condition-of-England novel
The Condition-of-England novel, also called the industrial or social-problem novel, is a body of mid-19th-century British fiction depicting working-class poverty, named for Thomas Carlyle's 1839 "Condition of England Question."
Condola Rashad
Condola Rashad (born 1986, New York) is an American stage and screen actress, daughter of Phylicia Rashad, with four Tony nominations (Stick Fly, The Trip to Bountiful, A Doll's House Part 2, Saint Joan) and Kate Sacker on Billions.
Condor (TV series)
Condor is an American conspiracy thriller TV series based on Six Days of the Condor, starring Max Irons as CIA analyst Joe Turner, which premiered in 2018.
Condorman
Condorman is a 1981 Walt Disney live-action comedy directed by Charles Jarrott, starring Michael Crawford as comic artist Woody Wilkins, who becomes his own superhero to help a Soviet spy defect; it flopped, costing Disney a $9.5 million write-off.
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'.