Solomon Isaievich Hurok Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Sol Hurok was the legendary impresario who made the impossible breakthrough by bringing the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet to America During the Cuban Missile crisis. At that time he managed to separate the Russian art and culture from the Soviet politics of the day. He was born Solomon Israilevich Gurkov on April 9, 1888, in Pogar, near Kharkov, Russia (...
An impresario is a man who discovers talent, who promotes it, who presents it, and who puts up the money and takes the risk. That's my main work, which is a lot different from a mere agent, a booker, a fellow who works strictly on percentage.
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When people don't want to come, nothing will stop them.
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How much do you love this attraction or that personality? How much do you owe the American public? Those are the important things. The money you think about later.
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[on his clients] If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way. There's something in them - some warmth, some fire - that projects into an audience and makes it respond. Give me the temperamental artist every time.
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