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Last week, after a sell-out first performance, the splash almost swamped Director Rosenstock with criticism. None of the critics doused Wozzeck itself; their damp words were reserved for City Opera's new English-language production...
Although the Bowl seats 74,786, it has not had a crowd of more than 66,000 in recent years. The last sell-out was in 1946, but even then, the Bowl's 18 miles of seats were not filled because many seats brought under the general admission plan were not actually used. The crowd for that Harvard Yale game was estimated...
Whether they believed it or not, happy French boxing fans elbowed into the Palais des Sports last week in sell-out crowds. Before the fight, Robinson outlined a watchful-waiting strategy: "In our last fight, Villemain just stayed in his shell [a crouching, bobbing, face-covered style]. The only time he opened up, I knocked him down. I'm just going to wait and see what he does, then cope with...
Master's Touch. With Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting members of his New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Szigeti gave his sell-out audience four works for violin and orchestra-and nothing else, a rare program for the U.S. (though not for European audiences). He opened with the clear, forthright Corelli suite La Folia; then came the Brahms Violin Concerto, followed by Portrait No. 1, an early work of his late Hungarian compatriot and friend Bela Bartok, and finally the Beethoven Concerto...
...Korean war was being fought by a small segment of the U.S. people. The U.S. forces on the battle line were not as big as the baseball crowd that jams Yankee Stadium for sell-out games, and only a minority of Americans-servicemen out-s'de the battle zone, families of men in action and civilians subject to military duty-were directly concerned even in a secondary way. For all its savagery and import, the Korean conflict was working little more hardship on most citizens than the Battle of Wounded Knee...