Word: hurok
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first thought about stopping in 1974, when his father died, and then his manager, Sol Hurok. "I adored both of them," he says. "It was really quite a blow." And the virtuoso circuit was exhausting. "The life of a musician is the most solitary life. Sometimes I did find it very difficult." Cliburn never made any sharp break, just gradually stopped accepting new engagements, spent more time visiting friends (he lives with his mother, Rildia Bee, now 92), composing piano pieces, buying English antiques, presiding over the quadrennial piano competition that bears his name, working out, enjoying himself...
...which will be performed in December as the closing attraction of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, now in its fourth season. The academy, affectionately known as BAM, has become a national showcase for avant-garde work; its president, Harvey Lichtenstein, is the movement's Sol Hurok. When Lichtenstein courageously produced Wilson's The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud in 1969, few thought Wilson's glacially paced musings would be the stuff of box-office success. But when Glass's opera about the early life of Gandhi, Satyagraha, unexpectedly sold out in the fall...
Given the confusion and the size of the mobs, it is astonishing that 80% got through within hours. Felix Frankfurter got through. Knute Rockne's health, mind and abilities were found to be acceptable. Irving Berlin, Bob Hope, Sol Hurok, Samuel Goldwyn and Elia Kazan were examined at Ellis Island, as were Louis Koch, the mayor's father, and Immaculata Giordano, Governor Mario Cuomo's mother...
...Hurok, I'm a total unknown...
Incredible as it seems, at 50, with four decades of performing behind him, Rubinstein had yet to catch on in the U.S. Then he signs with a "fat and important-looking middle-aged gentleman" named Sol Hurok, and soon America too is at his feet. When World War II drives him from his Paris home, he settles for a few years in Hollywood. There he earns huge fees for dubbing the sound track of films like Song of Love, buys a Cadillac and plunges into the party circuit with such elegant cronies as Charlie Chaplin, Thomas Mann and Marlene Dietrich...