Word: hurok
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Legend. His full name was Solomon Isaievich Hurok. To his friends he was Sol. To the public, though, it was "S. Hurok Presents," an emblem that invariably appeared atop the newspaper ad, billboard poster or concert program. Beneath it ran names like Artur Rubinstein, Isaac Stern, Margot Fonteyn, the Royal Ballet, the Old Vic and, of course, the Russians he so ably promoted and profited by in the U.S.: Pavlova, Richter, Oistrakh, the Bolshoi Ballet and Opera...
...Hurok was actively wheeling and dealing when he died last week at 85. He had lunched in midtown Manhattan with one of his most famous artists, Spanish Guitarist Andrés Segovia, then hopped into a car to go to a meeting with Banker David Rockefeller. On the way, a heart attack brought an end to the life of one of the most successful talent promoters in show business...
...worked hard on his own legend, Hurok eagerly boasted about what he considered his greatest accomplishment: "Bringing ballet to America and the American public to the ballet ... back when they called it 'toe dancing.' " His often hilarious way with the English language did not hurt his image either. "If people don't want to come," he once said while discussing the mystery of box-office appeal, "nothing will stop them." Hurok also authored two autobiographies (Impresario, S. Hurok Presents) about a life that began, like those of so many of his artists, in Russia. When...
...Hurok settled in Philadelphia, where he sold pots and pans, bundled newspapers, lost a job as a streetcar conductor because he could not pronounce the street names. He began going to concerts there, and liked them so much that when he moved to Brooklyn he decided to stage a few of his own. By 1915 he was regularly presenting such performers as Mischa Elman, Titta Ruffo and Alma Gluck in low-priced concerts at the old New York Hippodrome...
Died. Solomon Isaievich (Sol) Hurok, 85, colorful, Russian-born impresario who for six decades introduced American audiences to first-rate talent from all over the world (see Music...