Word: hurok
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barber wants the network anchor man's words made simpler, the brief snippets of news filled out with more background. Well, may be. As Sol Hurok used to say, if people don't want to come, nothing will stop them. Mark R. Levy, a New York sociologist, made a two-year study of why people watch the news and concluded that "being informed is only a secondary motive for most viewers. Most people watch TV news to be amused and diverted, or to make sure that their homes and families are safe and secure...
...Perhaps the most important outcome of the turmoil at Hurok may be that the U.S. will be seeing less of what was once the impresario's greatest pride: the famous international dance, symphonic and opera troupes that were his most publicized promotion ventures. Currently Hurok Concerts is presenting an 18-week season at the Met. This week the National Ballet of Canada comes in. In September the Paris Opera arrives...
Goldman and Del Rossi say that in the future they will no longer be able to afford the overhead such ventures require. "Mr. Hurok's theory-and I never met him-was that it was of vital importance for him to be at the Met," says Goldman. "He didn't want anyone else in that house." Hurok would book the Met for three months or so in the spring and summer, and pick up some or all expenses of visiting companies. "You run millions of dollars through all that and you come out with nothing on the bottom...
...Metropolitan Opera, headed for a staggering $10 million operating loss next season, has yet another huge financial problem on its hands. Deprived of the Hurok guarantee (worth $70,000 a week), it must now find other tenants. Talks are under way with several companies (notably Britain's Royal Ballet) in an effort to solve the problem and avert deeper financial trouble...
...Hurok's reputation was based on a memorable blend of taste and guts, but his legacy also included a share of confusion. Had he named a successor, it might have been different. Harold Shaw, the new man at Hurok Concerts, is regarded as a sound businessman. His abilities as a starmaker in the Hurok tradition are less well known. Despite the recent depletion of its talent roster, Hurok Concerts still handles a respectable array of artists, including Van Cliburn, Sviatoslav Richter, Henryk Szeryng, Nathan Milstein, Janet Baker, Nicolai Gedda and Artur Rubinstein. One of the joys...