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  Sol Hurok - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sol Hurok (April 9, 1888 - March 5, 1974) was a music agent and impresario.
He moved to the United States in 1906 and became a naturalized citizen in 1914.
The First Moog Quartet was formed as a result of Hurok's request to hear the Moog used live.
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 Harlow Robinson - The Last Impresario: The Life, Times and Legacy of Sol Hurok
The day Sol Hurok died he had lunched with Andres Segovia, met with Rudolf Nureyev and was on his way to see David Rockefeller when he collapsed of a heart attack.
Hurok (1888-1974), who was born in an obscure Ukrainian village, traveled a long way to become probably the greatest impresario ever, a promoter of world-class ballet, performing companies, opera stars and musicians for some 50 years.
For as Robinson shows, Hurok was as much a creation designed to dazzle the crowds as were the stars, who ranged from Pavlova and Chaliapin in the early years to Isaac Stern, Van Cliburn and the Moiseyev Dance Company later, all of whom he proudly offered under his "Sol Hurok Presents" rubric.
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 Penn Special Collections - Hurok 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It was through the persistent efforts of Billy King, Marian Anderson's Philadelphia-born accompanist, that impresario Sol Hurok became aware of the contralto.
The year 1935--the 1935/36 season--was the first for Hurok and Anderson, and he remained her manager for the rest of her performing career.
In her autobiography Marian Anderson writes of her interest in Hurok because of "his reputation for daring and constructive management.
www.library.upenn.edu /exhibits/rbm/anderson/hurok1.html   (173 words)

  
 Sol Hurok --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The original Sol, or Sol Indiges, had a shrine on the Quirinal, an annual sacrifice on August 9, and another shrine, together with Luna, the moon goddess, in the Circus Maximus.
The sol was introduced as the currency of Peru in the 1860s, but it was replaced during Chile's occupation of the country.
In 1991 the inti was replaced by the nuevo sol at a rate of 1...
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 Penn Special Collections - Hurok 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Sol Hurok continued as Marian Anderson's personal manager from 1935 through the remainder of her performing career.
Singing into a microphone in a studio is like performing into dead space." Yet her recording of "Ave Maria" had already sold over three-quarters of a million copies by 1956, while several of her albums had already sold over a quarter of a million copies each.
To close her remarkable vocal career, Sol Hurok booked a year-long farewell tour of the United States.
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 S. Hurok Amusement Corporation signed by Sol Hurok - 1925   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Emigrating to the United States in 1906, Hurok was a peddler, streetcar conductor, bottle washer, and hardware salesman before becoming the foremost impresario of his age.
Hurok's father ran a hardware store and taught him the business so he could follow in his footsteps.
Although the family was Jewish, in an era marred by outbreaks of anti-Semitism, Hurok downplayed his Jewish background throughout his life, and re-created his past.
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 Amazon.com: The Last Impresario : The Life, Times, and Legacy of Sol Hurok: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Hurok played a pioneering role in bringing many of the Soviet Union's stellar performers to U.S. audiences (and vice versa) during the Cold War.
Sol Hurok had established the British regimental band tour, and each year after he brought over several British bands on tour.
Hurok established a tradition that continues to this day, Yet, this is scarcely mentioned in this bio of him.
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 Dance Magazine: The Last Impresario: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Sol Hurok. - book reviews
Why doesn't he work for a living?" Pavlova, whom Hurok eventually represented, aroused gentler emotions in her American public but rarely as the doomed Odette or Giselle; because there were no local ballet companies in the U.S. when she toured, she appeared most often in vaudeville.
At Hurok's insistence, he was portrayed by David Wayne, who neither looked nor sounded like him (Isaac Stern said, "Hurok speaks six languages--and all of them are Yiddish").
Many of the most famous musicians of his time never regretted entrusting their careers to him, often on the basis of nothing more legally binding than a handshake to clinch the deal; yet the directors of the several companies known as someone or other's "Ballet Russe" were enraged by his intrigues and interference.
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 Dance Magazine : Sol Hurok: America's dance impresario. @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Impresario Sol Hurok, who arguably did more (under the ubiquitous marquee "S. Hurok Presents") to create an American audience for classical ballet than any other single figure in our history, loved to tell stories.
Since facts never constrained him, and since a dynamic rags-to-riches saga was also good for business, this master of self-aggrandizement provided the edifying story of his extravagant life with countless and increasingly colorful variations over the years.
A compulsive and shameless booster, he deftly navigated his self-portrait from the spoken word to countless newspaper accounts to two ghostwritten volumes and finally to the silver screen.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Sol Hurok
MSN Encarta - Search Results - Sol Hurok
Colloid, suspension of tiny particles of one substance, called the dispersed phase, in another phase, called the dispersion medium.
The Sol, which was based in Miami, Florida, played in the Eastern Conference of the Women’s...
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 Sol Hurok - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Sol Hurok - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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 Harlow Robinson - Books
Among the correspondents are ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev, theatrical director Vsevolod Meyerhold, Soviet critic/composer Boris Asafiev, composers Vernon Duke and Nikolai Miaskovsky, conductor Serge Koussevitsky and film director Sergei Eisenstein.
Almost single-handedly, from the 1920s to the 1960s, Sol Hurok introduced American audiences to ballet and brought live dance, music and theater to small towns and cities across the country for the first time.
Hurok's career came to a brilliant climax with his presentations of Soviet attractions in the post-Stalin Cold War era.
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 S. Hurok Amusement Corporation signed by Sol Hurok - 1925
Solomon Hurok (Solomon Gurkov in the Ukrainian village of Pogar) (1888-1974) American impresario, b.
Hurok Presents always appeared over the name of the performer or organization.
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 Sol Hurok --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
"Hurok, Sol." Britannica Student Encyclopedia from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
Sol and Mani were sister and brother, and both were fair and beautiful.
Spanish hotel group operating Meliá and Sol hotels in nearly 200 cities worldwide.
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 AllRefer.com - Sol Hurok (Theater, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Sol Hurok[hyoor´ok, yoor´–] Pronunciation Key, 1888–1974, American impresario, b.
By his own estimation, he presented more than 4,000 artists and companies, among them Pavlova, Marian Anderson, the ComEdie FranCaise, the Old Vic Company, the Royal Ballet, AndrEs Segovia, Jean-Louis Barrault, and Victoria de los Angeles.
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 MSN Encarta - Sol Hurok
Hurok, Sol (1888-1974), American impresario, born in Pogar, Russia.
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 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Sol Hurok   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Sol Hurok; all previous versions may be viewed here.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Hurok Sol
Sol-fa, sometimes called tonic sol-fa, is both a form of musical notation and a method of teaching sight-singing devised by the Congregationalist...
LeWitt, Sol (1928- ), American artist who is recognized as the foremost exponent of Minimalist and Conceptual art.
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 hurok - OneLook Dictionary Search
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 Amazon.ca: Books: The Last Impresario: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Sol Hurok   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Amazon.ca: Books: The Last Impresario: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Sol Hurok
I found it disappointing that a bio on Hurok did not contain more about one of Sol's most interesting contributions.
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 VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Tonight We Sing : Review
Tonight we Sing is the life story of legendary impresario Sol Hurok, impersonated herein by David Wayne.
A lover of the arts, young immigrant Hurok despairs when he realizes he has no musical or artistic talents.
Based on the autobiography by Sol Horuk (co-written with Ruth Goode), Tonight We Sing was produced for 20th Century-Fox by George Jessel.
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 Sol Hurok - Definition up Erdmond.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Books and Others to the Term: "Sol Hurok".
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 Solomon I "Sol" Hurok, U.S. impresario, dies at 85 March 5 in History
Solomon I "Sol" Hurok, U.S. impresario, dies at 85 March 5 in History
Solomon I "Sol" Hurok, U.S. impresario, dies at 85
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
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 Quote Details: Sol Hurok: Get pleasure out of... - The Quotations Page
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