Definition of subscription concert in US English:
subscription concert
nounsəbˈskrɪpʃən kənˈsərtsəbˈskripSHən kənˈsərt
One of a series of concerts for which tickets are sold mainly in advance.
Example sentencesExamples
- Indeed, Debussy was the composer most performed at Schoenberg's private subscription concerts.
- The Wesendoncks were in the audience, as they were again for the next subscription concert, on 17 February, when Wagner conducted Beethoven's Coriolanus Overture and Fifth Symphony.
- The middle class was not the public of the subscription concerts of the Philharmonic Society or Paris Conservatoire.
- The concert, a fitting finale to the Music Society's subscription concert series, will be given in Chipping Campden School Hall, Cider Mill Lane, at 8pm.
- By the late eighteenth century, it was possible to attend the opera or a subscription concert at one of London's several concert halls on every night of the week.