12 Metaphors for concerts

"A POPULAR CONCERT WILL BE HELL IN THE PORTEOUS HALL, On Friday, 2nd November.

The concert was a mixture of music, whining, coaxing, and promised candy and cake.

But this "Concert of Europe" was the very thing against which the democratic forces on the continent finally rebelled, for the "Concert" took the form of the so-called "Holy Alliance" between the rulers of Europe, whose object was to prevent popular movements from disturbing the neat and orderly peace which they had created.

But when you go on to talk of sacred music, I must be permitted to remind you that a concert is none the less a concert for being called by another name.

"Concert" was the heading in large caps on the bills, "Balacchi Brothers will give their aesthetic tableaux vivants in the interludes," in agate below.

And so we went on without him, and the concert was a great success.

Concerts were the rarest of luxuries to him, and violinists in Rome are rarer still.

On the other hand, Dr. Bode, Signor Conti in his monograph on Giorgione, M. Müntz, and the authorities in Florence support the traditional view that the "Concert" is a masterpiece of Giorgione.

Conceding, however, this seeming concert of action to be merely fortuitous, what will the vice-president of the Board of Trade say to the long-laboured, but still unconsummated customs' union between France and Belgium?

Once, in the Holy Alliance, that Concert itself became an intolerable tyranny.

"This concert, you see, is my first important appearance since our marriage.

And here," he spun round to face Judith and Lawrence, producing another slim, tiny envelope from the other upper waistcoat pocket, "since symphony concerts are rather solid meat for milk teeth, and since they last till way after bedtime, I have provided another sort of entertainment; to wit: three seats for moving pictures of the only real and authentic Cheyenne Bill's Congress of the World's Frontiersmen.

12 Metaphors for  concerts