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...Legend. His full name was Solomon Isaievich Hurok. To his friends he was Sol. To the public, though, it was "S. Hurok Presents," an emblem that invariably appeared atop the newspaper ad, billboard poster or concert program. Beneath it ran names like Artur Rubinstein, Isaac Stern, Margot Fonteyn, the Royal Ballet, the Old Vic and, of course, the Russians he so ably promoted and profited by in the U.S.: Pavlova, Richter, Oistrakh, the Bolshoi Ballet and Opera...
...Hurok Presents) about a life that began, like those of so many of his artists, in Russia. When he was 16, his father, a hardware merchant in the small Ukrainian village of Pogar, gave him 1,500 rubles and sent him to Kharkov to learn the hardware business. Instead, Sol headed straight for America, arriving with the equivalent of $1.50 in his pocket...
Died. Solomon Isaievich (Sol) Hurok, 85, colorful, Russian-born impresario who for six decades introduced American audiences to first-rate talent from all over the world (see Music...
There are several artists - among them, the sculptors Carl Andre and Sol Le Witt and the conceptual artist Hans Haacke - who make it a practice to write a royalty clause into every contract of sale when they release a work. But they are relatively well-known figures and there is an established demand for their art. A young or obscure artist has no bargaining position on resale rights when a collector appears in the studio. Every year the U.S. art-education system cranks out more than 30,000 graduates, each with a degree saying "artist"; there is a glut...
...that Diva Maria Callas, 50, was to appear at her first New York recital in nine years, the phone rang at Impresario Sol Hurok's hotel. There was, said the operator, a lady friend of 20 years' standing who wished to speak to him. "That's not nearly long enough," said Hurok, refusing to take the call. He got the message anyway. Callas was canceling because of a sore throat. The 2,800 fans, some of whom had paid as much as $100 a ticket, were disappointed, even tearful, but not altogether surprised. Maria had done...