Article: Three Lives

Article: Sol Hurok: America's dance impresario.
Dance Magazine;  November 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ...Impresario Sol Hurok, who arguably did more (under the ubiquitous marquee "S. Hurok ... Mille even questioned his powers of discrimination, proclaiming that "Sol Hurok was a peasant and a midget who would never give an opinion on anything ...

Article: Turning the spotlight on impresario Sol Hurok
The Boston Globe;  March 24, 1994 ;     700+ words ...THE LAST IMPRESARIO The Life, Times and Legacy of Sol Hurok By Harlow Robinson Viking, 521 pp., illustrated, $26.95 In his day, Sol Hurok was almost as celebrated as the great artists he presented -- Anna Pavlova, Fyodor Chaliapin, Marian ...

Encyclopedia entry: Sol Hurok
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      417 words ...Sol Hurok , 1888-1974, American impresario, b. Russia. Emigrating to the United States in 1906, Hurok was a peddler, streetcar conductor ...

Article: The Last Impresario: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Sol ...
Dance Magazine;  September 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ...Any reasonably thorough biography of the Ukranian-born American impresario Sol Hurok (1888-1974) would have to provide at least a capsule history of the American dance scene in the twentieth century. Though ...

The Last Impresario: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Sol ...
American Theatre;  July 1, 1994 ;     427 words ...Sol Hurok's motives were "in large part selfish," Russian language and culture specialist Harlow Robinson posits in the introduction ...

Transcript: Oscar Levant Profiled in New Biography
NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday;  August 28, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... Hansen. [`Blame It On My Youth' music by Oscar Levant] HANSEN: Oscar Levant's `Blame It On My Youth,' sung by Chet ... one of the country's most acerbic wits. Yet Oscar Levant considered himself a failure. An insecure ...

Transcript: Oscar Levant: Hollywood's First Celebrity ...
NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday;  December 24, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Edition - Sunday (NPR) 12-24-2006 Oscar Levant: Hollywood's First Celebrity Meltdown ... first publicly dysfunctional celebrity. Oscar Levant was born 100 years ago this week and ... country's most acerbic wits. But Oscar Levant considered himself a failure. He was ...