Word: sellout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tasks of The Magic Flute and Fidelio were really accomplished by the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler. The Flute was given first, before a sellout audience in the 300-year-old riding arena, carved out of the Monchsberg by the archbishops of Salzburg. "It is Mozart's turn," explained old Baron Heinrich Puthon, the festival's president. "Next year we will open with Fidelio so Beethoven will not be mad at us." For the Flute, the State Opera had no single great voice to offer, but its ensemble singing...
...would catch the Journal's 4,522,000. To help it do so, McCall's spent $120,000 promoting the seven-article series with radio, newspaper and television advertising. Said Editor Wiese: I have no hesitancy in saying we expect this issue to be a sellout...
...Czechs enjoy their monthly look at Amerika as much as their Russian neighbors do, it will be a sellout. For more than four years, Amerika has been the only U.S. magazine widely circulated in the U.S.S.R. At ten rubles ($1.23), the 50,000 copies of Amerika's Russian edition get thumbed by about 1,000,000 So. viet citizens. In the first Czech issue of Amerika, readers will find 72 pages of reprints from the Russian, ranging from the 4-H Clubs to Radio City, and from Thomas Jefferson to James Thurber...
...such numbers as Schubert's Impromptu in B-flat Major, the finale of Prokofiev's Classical Symphony, the first movement of Bach's Concerto in D Minor and some Chopin études -one to show that four pianos can ripple as fast as one-the near-sellout audience thumped their hands for more...
...Newest of Cole Porter's glittering list of hit musicals is the current Broadway sellout...