Word: hurok
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Give the public the best," says Impresario Sol Hurok, "and you can't miss. If it's promoted right, projected right, the public is here...
Impresario Hurok, 64, should know. He has been in the business of promoting, projecting and presenting ballet, opera, drama, symphonic orchestras and concert artists all over the world for more than 40 years. This season, for example, he presented in the U.S. the Comédie-Française, the Sadlers Wells Ballet, the Santa Cecilia Choir of Rome, Antonio and his Spanish Ballet Company, the Scots Guards Band, the Kabuki Dancers, the Vienna Choir Boys. Last week, hewing to his principle of giving the public the best, he presented his second TV show of the season.* It was easily...
Behind the scenes, the music was less harmonious than on screen. RCA Victor, co-sponsor of the show, thought it would be a good idea to load the program with RCA recording stars. As it worked out, RCA succeeded in adding two of its performing artists to Hurok's original list of ten. Hurok managed to keep Violinist Stern, who records for Columbia, and Soprano Tebaldi, who records for London, in the show. Hurok and RCA then faced an onslaught by the Metropolitan Opera's General Manager Rudolf Bing, who refused to allow Tebaldi...
...arts have been paving the way for larger and larger doses. "This is integration of great cultural entertainment that at this point the general public does not like. By integrating it into lighter forms, we think we've been able to create an audience for it ... If Sol Hurok did an evening of unforgettable music, it would be the sort of thing we want . . . We could sit down right now and say, Okay Ernest Hemingway, it's a deal...
Aida (Sol Hurok; I.F.E.). Italian film makers have released eight filmed operas to U.S. art houses in the past seven years. Some of them translated into fairly acceptable films. Aida, with its vivid Ferraniacolor, its monumental settings of ancient Memphis, its popular and dramatic music, its handsome acting cast and its standout (mostly invisible) singing cast, aims at being the grandest assault yet on U.S. eyes and ears...