Word: impresarios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happens," says Mattiwilda Dobbs. But she is already scheduled to sing the big coloratura role in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos at the Glyndebourne Festival next summer. Her records of Mozart's Zaide (Poly-music) and Bizet's Pearl Fishers (Renaissance) are winning top notices. Impresario Sol Hurok, who is bringing her back to the U.S. next season, has his eye fixed on the Metropolitan for Mattiwilda...
Between numbers the packed hall resounded to roars and whistles of approval and the stamping of teen-age feet. Afterward, it took the performers 45 minutes to fight their way through the ecstatic crowd outside. For U.S. Jazz Impresario Norman Granz, it was a comfortably reassuring beginning for his second annual invasion of Europe with his package show, "Jazz at the Philharmonic." In the next ten weeks, he and his musical tourists expect to put on much the same kind of program - and get the same kind of flat tering attention - in such cities as Oslo, Brussels, Paris, Geneva, Zurich...
...Impresario Granz, an indisputably successful music merchant at 34, finds that his richest field of operation is the U.S. From tours last year, his troupes grossed close to $1,000,000. Granz's business philosophy: "If I didn't make $100,000 take-home pay a year, I'd quit." But his current European tour, like last year's, is to "establish 'Jazz at the Philharmonic,' not make money-not right...
Tonight We Sing (20th Century-Fox) is an opulent, star-spangled, two-hour film concert featuring the famed clients, past & present, of famed Impresario S. (for Sol) Hurok. The picture offers such flesh & blood talents as Tamara Toumanova, Isaac Stern, Roberta Peters, and the sound-track voice of Jan Peerce. It also fondly recalls such historic Hurok clients as Anna Pavlova. Eugéne Ysaÿe and Feodor Chaliapin...
...with these highbrow attractions, the picture presents a fairly lowbrow, offstage story loosely based on Hurok's 1946 autobiography, Impresario. Hurok (David Wayne) is depicted as a sort of Russian Horatio Alger who migrated to America, and became in short order the Barnum of the arts by purveying musical culture to the masses. For drama, the picture develops a domestic schism between Hurok and his wife (Anne Bancroft), caused by his excessive devotion to his work...