Cadenza
/kəˈdɛnzə/
"Cadenza" in a Sentence (2 examples)
Mistaking cadenza with decadence would be a great mistake.
Yes, laugh, as I want to laugh for instance in the concert hall when the orchestra trundles to a stop and the virtuoso at his piano, hunched like a demented vet before the bared teeth of this enormous black beast of sound, lifts up deliquescent hands and prepares to plunge into the cadenza.