Definitions
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- noun United States impresario who was born in Russia (1888-1974)
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Examples
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"I loved singing, but I realized early on that I was not going to be another Franco Corelli, so I decided I would like to be a Rudolf Bing or Sol Hurok instead."
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Sol Hurok, the American “impresario,” arranged both tours.
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The tour to the United States which Hurok planned for the company was cancelled when World War II broke out and the company returned to Israel, where it was disbanded.
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Roosevelt, along with Hurok and Walter White of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), encouraged Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes to arrange a free open-air concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for Easter Sunday.
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When she returned to music, however, it was not as a pianist, but as an employee of the Hurok organization, promoting the careers of other young musicians.
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For example, "taking your wife to dinner and treating it as a business expense won't fly," Hurok says.
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Mr. Hurok told me that one of the first lessons he had learned in dealing with his temperamental stars was the necessity for sympathy, sympathy and more sympathy with their idiosyncrasies.
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Mr. Hurok would lie and say he would do it, for he knew that was the only way to get the basso out on the stage.
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At seven-thirty the great basso would consent to sing, only with the understanding that Mr. Hurok would walk out on the stage of the Metropolitan and announce that Chaliapin had a very bad cold and was not in good voice.
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For example, Chaliapin would call up Mr. Hurok about noon of the day he was going to sing and say, Sol, I feel terrible.
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