as in concert
an entertainment featuring singing or the playing of musical instruments
gathered every month in someone's home for an informal musicale
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Recent Examples of musicale
The contrast makes an American happy: on the one side, tradition, serious public performance, luxury; on the other, émigré teachers, amateur musicales and family shenanigans, casual summers in the modest countryside.
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David Denby, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2025
Hyacinth Bridgerton and Gareth St. Clair meet at the Smythe-Smith musicale, an annual performance by one of London’s most notorious quartets.
—Leah Campano, Seventeen, 24 Mar. 2022
Two new compact disks, both of them more or less perfect and charming, evoke the ambience of the Proustian musicale.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
The concert itself felt both intimate and grand — like a musicale staged in a living room with 2,364 vacant red seats.
—Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2020
In 2013, John Pizzarelli figured among a handful of musicians invited to the Supreme Court’s annual musicale.
—oregonlive, 30 Dec. 2019
García comenzó recopilando décimas, poemas populares del Nuevo Mundo, orales y musicales, de los afrodescendientes y otros pueblos; algunos memorizados, otros improvisados, que siguen una forma literaria que se remonta a la España colonial.
—Charles David Kleymeyer, Smithsonian, 14 June 2019
Having left her 1-year-old daughter, Millicent, in Washington with her parents, Mabel solaced herself with the bustle of dinners, carriage rides, musicales and games of whist mainly organized by the town’s eminent couple, Susan and Austin Dickinson.
—Brenda Wineapple, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2018
With Centennial chairwoman Jan Buckley, gala chairs Deepa Pakianathan and Diane Zack led a musicale — its largest ever — that raised more than $1 million for student scholarships and community engagement programs on March 19.
—Catherine Bigelow, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2018
David Denby, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2025
Hyacinth Bridgerton and Gareth St. Clair meet at the Smythe-Smith musicale, an annual performance by one of London’s most notorious quartets.
—Leah Campano, Seventeen, 24 Mar. 2022
Two new compact disks, both of them more or less perfect and charming, evoke the ambience of the Proustian musicale.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
The concert itself felt both intimate and grand — like a musicale staged in a living room with 2,364 vacant red seats.
—Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2020
In 2013, John Pizzarelli figured among a handful of musicians invited to the Supreme Court’s annual musicale.
—oregonlive, 30 Dec. 2019
García comenzó recopilando décimas, poemas populares del Nuevo Mundo, orales y musicales, de los afrodescendientes y otros pueblos; algunos memorizados, otros improvisados, que siguen una forma literaria que se remonta a la España colonial.
—Charles David Kleymeyer, Smithsonian, 14 June 2019
Having left her 1-year-old daughter, Millicent, in Washington with her parents, Mabel solaced herself with the bustle of dinners, carriage rides, musicales and games of whist mainly organized by the town’s eminent couple, Susan and Austin Dickinson.
—Brenda Wineapple, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2018
With Centennial chairwoman Jan Buckley, gala chairs Deepa Pakianathan and Diane Zack led a musicale — its largest ever — that raised more than $1 million for student scholarships and community engagement programs on March 19.
—Catherine Bigelow, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for musicale
concert
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Music and fireworks are on full display at Celebration at the Station, the annual free concert that defines Memorial Day weekend in Kansas City.—
Joseph Hernandez,
Kansas City Star,
25 May 2025
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On May 29, the Hall of Fame Texas Rangers broadcaster, 74, will celebrate with a bit more flair at the 13th annual Eric Nadel Birthday Benefit, a concert at the historic Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas featuring co-headliners Shinyribs and the Secret Sisters.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 May 2025
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“Musicale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musicale. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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