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With the whopping cash prize went various other rewards: a recital in Carnegie Hall, a concert in London's Royal Festival Hall, a European tour, an S. Hurok-sponsored tour of the U.S., Canada and Latin America. For a time, Pianist Votapek did not know whether he could accept any of them: he was scheduled to be drafted, did not learn until week's end that he had been deferred for a year...
...four years now, Soviet dancers have represented a sizable hunk of Impresario Sol Hurok's business. Since 1958, he has imported five companies,† toasted the dancers with champagne and caviar at hotel rooftop parties, and sent them off to the vast American steppes to spread cheer and make money. Last week a shy girl in a flowered robe and korsetki (a kind of satin juniper) stepped to the footlights at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera house and uttered the words "Miz Ukraini" (We are from the Ukraine). Sol had brought...
When the air was finally clear of flying dancers, the audience rose and gave the performers the old Sol Hurok Opening Night Locomotive. The dancers applauded back with enthusiasm. The reviews glowed. Box offices along the company's 16-city cross-continent route rang to the clink of coin. As for Impresario Hurok himself, his restless eye was probably already roving the map of Russia that was included in the official program. A ballet troupe from Monchegorsk, perhaps? Or sword dancers from Pinsk...
...Europe, and at 13 became the youngest student in the history of Rome's Academy of Santa Cecilia to win a master's degree. Hearing of the prodigy. Artur Rubinstein several times invited Barenboim to his home to play. Present on one occasion was U.S. Impresario Sol Hurok. who signed him up at 14 for his first U.S. tour. (This is his fourth...
Presently, such productions rarely come to Boston. Both Sol Hurok and Aaron Richmond have publicly stated, says Gitter, that major productions cannot be played here. Those companies that have tried them in the Boston Garden have refused to return...