Concert vs. Rehearsal — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Concert and Rehearsal
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Concert
A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, choir, or band.
Rehearsal
A rehearsal is an activity in the performing arts that occurs as preparation for a performance in music, theatre, dance and related arts, such as opera, musical theatre and film production. It is undertaken as a form of practising, to ensure that all details of the subsequent performance are adequately prepared and coordinated.
Concert
(Music) A performance given by one or more singers or instrumentalists or both in the presence of an audience.
Rehearsal
A practice or trial performance of a play or other work for later public performance
Rehearsals for the opera season
Concert
Unity achieved by mutual communication of views, ideas, and opinions
Acted in concert on the issue.
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Rehearsal
The act of practicing in preparation for a public performance.
Concert
(Archaic) Agreement in purpose, feeling, or action
“His looks bespoke a mind absorbed in meditation on his country's fate.
But a positive concert between him and Henry could not more effectually have exhibited him to view than when Henry with indignation ridiculed the idea of peace” (George Morgan).
Rehearsal
A session of practice for a performance, as of a play.
Concert
(Archaic) Concerted action
“One feels between them an accumulation of gentleness and strength, a concert of energies” (Vanity Fair).
Rehearsal
A detailed enumeration or repetition
A long rehearsal of his woes.
Concert
To plan or arrange by mutual agreement
“Finally the allies were able to concert their actions long enough to defeat Napoleon” (Jennifer Mitzen).
Rehearsal
The practicing of something which is to be performed before an audience, usually to test or improve the interaction between several participating people, or to allow technical adjustments with respect to staging to be done.
Concert
To adjust; settle
“Unless we concert measures to prevent it, there will be another and a final war” (Woodrow Wilson).
Rehearsal
A preparatory activity analogous to the rehearsal of a show.
The forest fires are just a rehearsal for the devastation that will be caused if climate change continues to worsen.
Concert
To act together in harmony
“The object of desire, concerting with the existing order, turns into a token of love, revolting against the existing order” (Lilian Munk Rösing).
Rehearsal
The act of rehearsing or contriving something; the fact of something's being rehearsed.
The prosecution argued that the defendant's exact repetition of his account of the events several times demonstrated the rehearsal of his story.
Concert
To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.
Rehearsal
The act of rehearsing; recital; narration; repetition; specifically, a private recital, performance, or season of practice, in preparation for a public exhibition or exercise.
In rehearsal of our Lord's Prayer.
Here's marvelous convenient place for our rehearsal.
Concert
To plan; to devise; to arrange.
Rehearsal
A practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert);
He missed too many rehearsals
A rehearsal will be held the day before the wedding
Concert
To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.
Rehearsal
(psychology) a form of practice; repetition of information (silently or aloud) in order to keep it in short-term memory
Concert
(uncountable) Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action.
Concert
(uncountable) Musical accordance or harmony; concord.
Concert
(countable) A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part.
I’m going to the rock concert on Friday.
Who’s playing at the concert on Friday?
Concert
To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.
It was concerted to begin the siege in March.
Concert
To plan; to devise; to arrange.
A commander had more trouble to concert his defense before the people than to plan . . . the campaign.
Concert
To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.
The ministers of Denmark were appointed to concert with Talbot.
Concert
Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action.
All these discontents, how ruinous soever, have arisen from the want of a due communication and concert.
Concert
Musical accordance or harmony; concord.
Let us in concert to the season sing.
Concert
A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part.
Visit by night your lady's chamber windowWith some sweet concert.
And boding screech owls make the concert full.
Concert
A performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging
Concert
Contrive (a plan) by mutual agreement
Concert
Settle by agreement;
Concert one's differences
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