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...talents also followed a pattern familiar to other young instrumentalists: one big prizewinning season followed by relative obscurity. Most musicians blame the concert-management system for this state of affairs far more than they do the public. Between them, Columbia Artists Management, the National Artists Corporation and Impresario Sol Hurok control 90% of the soloists and instrumental groups touring the country. To the beginning artist, the Big Three offer irresistible bait: a chance to tour the country for pay and to build a reputation. But the reputations are built in New York, and the pay, when fees and traveling expenses...
...deep behind the Metropolitan Opera's ropes, and even the ushers stared popeyed at the stage. Orchestra seats went on the black market for $80 a pair, but few could be had. Night after night, audiences (total: 79,000, who paid $365,000) rose in cheering ovations. Impresario Sol Hurok promptly scheduled four extra performances in Madison Square Garden in late June-and they are already sold...
From Europe and the U.S. the offers were pouring in: Dowager Queen Elisabeth of Belgium personally invited him to play at the Brussels World's Fair (he may do so, with the Philadelphia Orchestra); Impresario Sol Hurok, who once passed him up, tried unsuccessfully to get Cliburn under option; Ed Sullivan put in his bid for Cliburn's first Stateside TV appearance. Columbia Artists announced plans to bring over Moscow Conductor Kiril Kondrashin to accompany Cliburn on May 19 in a Carnegie Hall duplication of his prizewinning concert, with later performances in Philadelphia and Washington. Cliburn...
...this touched off a wave of frenzied price cutting in many cities, as everyone tried to undercut the competition. Manhattan stores sold $39.95 G.E. clock radios for $27.95; Los Angeles retailers chopped waffle irons from $22.95 to $15.88; Chicago's Sol Polk cut his discount prices on electric skillets from $12.95 to $9.98, and hurried to order another 10,000 small appliances. Yet in many other U.S. cities, the news stirred hardly a ripple. In Washington, D.C., Detroit, Dallas, Denver and dozens of other markets, Fair Trade on these items has long since died. Said a Milwaukee department-store...
Whatever serious music the U.S. small city or town is unable to drum up on its own these days, it can usually import through any one of the 20 management concerns operating in Manhattan (Columbia Artists Management, the National Artists Corp. and Sol Hurok among them control 90% of the business). The New York management outfits now give their clients a choice of 617 attractions, including 96 sopranos, 42 tenors, 101 pianists, 50 violinists, 65 instrumental ensembles, 47 vocal ensembles, four harpists, one marimbist and an assortment of special acts. Many younger artists use the local concert circuit to pick...