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Sol Hurok

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Sol Hurok (Solomon Isaievich Hurok; born Solomon Izrailevich Gurkov, Russian Соломон Израилевич Гурков; April 9, 1888March 5, 1974) was a 20th-century American impresario. [1]

82 relations: Aaron Richmond, Agnes de Mille Dance Theatre, Alexander Glazunov, Alexander Zakin, Anna Pavlova (film), Annabelle Whitestone, April 9, Art D'Lugoff, Arthur Rubinstein, Arthur Rubinstein discography, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company, Blanche Thebom, Bored of the Rings, Brenda Lewis, Capezio, Carmelita Maracci, Carol Channing, Dale Wasserman, Daniel Heifetz, Daughters of the American Revolution, Don Cossack Choir, Edra Toth, Ernesto de Quesada, Evgeny Mogilevsky, Ezio Pinza, Feodor Chaliapin, Fine Arts Films, First Moog Quartet, Harlow Robinson, Henryk Szeryng, Herbert Barrett (talent manager), Horacio Gutiérrez, Impresario, Irina Baronova, Isa Kremer, Isadorables, Jerome Hines, Jewish Defense League, Jim Halsey, John Murray (actor), Jules Bledsoe, Katherine Dunham, Lea Luboshutz, List of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson episodes (1963), March 5, Marian Anderson, Marina Goglidze-Mdivani, Maya Plisetskaya, Natalie de Bogory, ..., Nestor Mesta Chayres, Newark Symphony Hall, Nikolai Yavorsky, Nora Kovach, Opus 3 Artists, Original Ballet Russe, Peter Gelb, Peter Hyams, Peter Klein (impresario), Petrushka (ballet), Pogarsky District, Pola Nirenska, Premiere (TV program), Producers' Showcase, Ralph Votapek, Richard Tucker, Roberta Peters, Rolando Valdés-Blain, Second City Television, Sergio Franchi, Sol (given name), Teresa Sterne, The Ansonia, Tonight We Sing, Trudi Schoop, Uday Shankar, University of Pennsylvania Glee Club, Van Cliburn, Vladimir Atlantov, Wanda Wiłkomirska, Wassily de Basil, 1962 in music. Expand index (32 more) »

Aaron Richmond

Aaron Richmond (October 28, 1895, in Salem, Massachusetts – April 21, 1965, in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American performing arts manager, pianist, impresario, and educator, based in Boston, Massachusetts, who managed the careers of numerous classical musicians and founded Celebrity Series of Boston, a performing arts presenting organization that still operates today.

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Agnes de Mille Dance Theatre

The Agnes de Mille Dance Theatre toured the United States from 1953 to 1954 under the aegis of producer Sol Hurok.

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Alexander Glazunov

Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (10 August 1865 – 21 March 1936) was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period.

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Alexander Zakin

Alexander Zakin (22 January 190316 October 1990) was a Russian-born pianist, best known for being the accompanist of the violinist Isaac Stern between 1940 and 1977.

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Anna Pavlova (film)

Anna Pavlova, also known as A Woman for All Time, is a 1983 biographical drama film depicting the life of the Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova, written and directed by Emil Loteanu and starring Galina Belyayeva, James Fox and Sergey Shakurov.

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Annabelle Whitestone

Annabelle Whitestone, Lady Weidenfeld, (born 1946) is an English former concert manager working with classical music impresarios including Ingpen & Williams, Ibbs and Tillett, Wilfrid Van Wyck, The English Bach Festival and Conciertos Daniel in Madrid The Polish-American pianist Arthur Rubinstein credited Whitestone with assisting the careers of two of his protégés, François-René Duchâble and Janina Fialkowska, as well as introducing him to the chamber music of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven "with all sorts of combinations of string and wind instruments which I never even heard." In 1977, the 90-year-old Rubinstein left his wife of 45 years for Whitestone and lived with her in Geneva, Switzerland until he died in 1982.

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April 9

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Art D'Lugoff

Art D'Lugoff (August 2, 1924 - November 4, 2009) was an American jazz impresario.

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Arthur Rubinstein

Arthur Rubinstein (Artur Rubinstein; 28 January 188720 December 1982) was a Polish American classical pianist.

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Arthur Rubinstein discography

Arthur Rubinstein (January 28, 1887 – December 20, 1982) was a Polish-American pianist.

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Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo

The company Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo (note the plural) was formed in 1932 after the death of Diaghilev and the demise of Ballets Russes.

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Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company

The Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company is the oldest dance company in the Philippines.

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Blanche Thebom

Blanche Thebom (September 19, 1915March 23, 2010) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano, voice teacher, and opera director.

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Bored of the Rings

Bored of the Rings is a parody of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

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Brenda Lewis

Brenda Lewis (March 2, 1921 – September 16, 2017) was an American operatic soprano, musical theatre actress, opera director, and music educator.

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Capezio

Capezio is the trade name of Capezio Ballet Makers Inc., a manufacturer of dance shoes, apparel and accessories.

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Carmelita Maracci

Carmelita Maracci (July 17, 1908 – July 26, 1987) was an American concert dancer and choreographer who creatively fused ballet and Spanish dance techniques.

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Carol Channing

Carol Elaine Channing (born January 31, 1921) is an American actress, singer, dancer and comedian.

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Dale Wasserman

Dale Wasserman (November 2, 1914 – December 21, 2008) was an American playwright.

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Daniel Heifetz

Daniel Alan Heifetz (born November 20, 1948) is an American concert violinist and the Founder and Artistic Director of the.

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Daughters of the American Revolution

The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is a lineage-based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a person involved in the United States' efforts towards independence.

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Don Cossack Choir

The Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff (Хор донских казаков Сергея Жарова) was a men's chorus of exiled Cossacks founded in 1921 by Serge Jaroff and conducted for almost sixty years by him.

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Edra Toth

Edra Toth (born September 18, 1952) is a Hungarian-American ballet dancer who studied under with the Boston Ballet.

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Ernesto de Quesada

Ernesto de Quesada López Chaves (1 November 1886 — 1972) was the Cuban-born impresario who founded Conciertos Daniel, the classical music management agency now known as Hispania Clásica.

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Evgeny Mogilevsky

Evgeny Mogilevsky (born in 1945 in Odessa) is a Russian pianist.

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Ezio Pinza

Ezio Pinza (born Fortunio Pinza; May 18, 1892May 9, 1957) was an Italian opera singer.

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Feodor Chaliapin

Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin (ˈfʲɵdər ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ ʂɐˈlʲapʲɪn; April 12, 1938) was a Russian opera singer.

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Fine Arts Films

(not to be confused with a production company founded by film pioneer D. W. Griffith) Fine Arts Films is a production studio based in Northern England and Hollywood.

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First Moog Quartet

The First Moog Quartet was formed by Gershon Kingsley in 1970, as the result of a request by famous impresario Sol Hurok to hear the Moog synthesizer's capabilities demonstrated live.

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Harlow Robinson

Harlow Loomis Robinson (born 20 September 1950) is a Matthews Distinguished University Professor of History at Northeastern University who specializes in Soviet and Russian cultural history, with writings on Soviet film and performing arts.

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Henryk Szeryng

Henryk Szeryng (usually pronounced HEN-rik SHEH-ring) (22 September 19183 March 1988) was a Polish-Mexican violinist.

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Herbert Barrett (talent manager)

Herbert Barrett (May 31, 1910 – November 5, 2007) was an influential talent manager and publicist in the classical music world during the second half of the twentieth century.

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Horacio Gutiérrez

Horacio Gutiérrez (born August 28, 1948) is a Cuban-American virtuoso classical pianist.

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Impresario

An impresario (from the Italian impresa, "an enterprise or undertaking") is a person who organizes and often finances concerts, plays, or operas, performing a role similar to that of an artist manager or a film or television producer.

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Irina Baronova

Irina Mikhailovna Baronova FRAD (13 March 1919 – 28 June 2008) was a Russian ballerina and actress who was one of the Baby Ballerinas of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, discovered by George Balanchine in Paris in the 1930s.

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Isa Kremer

Isabelle Yakovlevna Kremer (21 October 1887 – 7 July 1956) was a soprano of Russian Jewish descent who at various times of her life held citizenship in Russia, the United States, and Argentina.

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Isadorables

The Isadorables were a group of six young girls, Anna Denzler, Maria-Theresa Kruger, Irma Erich-Grimme, Elizabeth Milker, Margot Jehl, and Erica Lohmann, who danced under the instruction of Isadora Duncan.

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Jerome Hines

Jerome A. Hines (November 8, 1921 – February 4, 2003) was an American operatic bass who performed at the Metropolitan Opera from 1946-87.

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Jewish Defense League

The Jewish Defense League (JDL) is a Jewish far-right religious-political organization in the United States, whose stated goal is to "protect Jews from antisemitism by whatever means necessary".

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Jim Halsey

Jim Halsey (born October 7, 1930) is an American artist manager, agent, and impresario.

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John Murray (actor)

John Murray (born June 22, 1958 in Wilmette, Illinois) is an American actor, writer and producer.

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Jules Bledsoe

Julius Lorenzo Cobb Bledsoe (1897 – July 14, 1943) by John Troesser.

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Katherine Dunham

Katherine Mary Dunham (also known as Kaye Dunn, June 22, 1909 – May 21, 2006) was an American dancer, choreographer, author, educator, and social activist.

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Lea Luboshutz

Lea Luboshutz (February 22, 1885 – March 18, 1965) was a Russian violinist.

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List of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson episodes (1963)

The following is a list of episodes of the television series The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson which aired in 1963.

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March 5

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Marian Anderson

Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) was an American singer.

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Marina Goglidze-Mdivani

Marina Goglidze-Mdivani (Georgian: მარინა გოგლიძე-მდივანი; born October 6, 1936 in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR) is a Soviet and Canadian virtuoso pianist of Georgian descent.

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Maya Plisetskaya

Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya (Ма́йя Миха́йловна Плисе́цкая; 20 November 1925 – 2 May 2015) was a Soviet ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress, who held in post-Soviet times Spanish and Lithuanian citizenship.

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Natalie de Bogory

Natalie de Bogory (also known as Natalie Debogory or Natalie DeBogory-Mokriyevich) (1887–1939) is primarily known for her work in translating from the Russian language into the English language, and subsequently distributing and participating in having published the first or second American edition in the United States of the document known as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

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Nestor Mesta Chayres

Néstor Mesta Cháyres (aka Nestor Chaires, Ciudad Lerdo, February 26, 1908 - Mexico City, June 29, 1971) was an accaimed tenor in Mexico and a noted interpreter of Spanish songs and Mexican romantic music on the international concert stage.

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Newark Symphony Hall

Newark Symphony Hall at 1020 Broad Street in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, was built in 1925 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

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Nikolai Yavorsky

Nikolai Petrovich Yavorsky (Russian: Никола́й Петро́вич Яво́рский) (23 February 1891, Odessa - 9 October 1947, Santiago de Cuba) was a Cuban choreographer and ballet teacher of Russian origin.

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Nora Kovach

Nora Kovach (13 June 1931 – 18 January 2009) was a Hungarian ballerina who defected in 1953 together with her husband and fellow ballet dancer Istvan Rabovsky, the first highly publicized defection of individuals in the field of dance to the West from the Soviet bloc.

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Opus 3 Artists

Opus 3 Artists is an independent artists management firm with offices in New York City, Los Angeles and Berlin and represents several classical artists, as well as artists in the non-classical genres, such as jazz, world music, theater, dance, and special attractions.

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Original Ballet Russe

The Original Ballet Russe (originally named Les Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo) was a ballet company established in 1931 by René Blum and Colonel Wassily de Basil as a successor to the Ballets Russes, founded in 1909 by Sergei Diaghilev.

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Peter Gelb

Peter Gelb (born 1953) is an American arts administrator.

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Peter Hyams

Peter Hyams (born July 26, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter and cinematographer, known for directing Capricorn One, the 1981 science fiction thriller Outland, 2010 (the sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey), the 1986 action/comedy Running Scared, the comic book adaptation Timecop, the action film Sudden Death (both starring Jean-Claude Van Damme), and the horror films The Relic and End of Days.

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Peter Klein (impresario)

Peter Klein is an American impresario who brought several American theatrical productions to Europe and arranged the first US tour of La Scala Ballet in 1986.

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Petrushka (ballet)

Petrushka (Pétrouchka; Петрушка) is a ballet burlesque in four scenes.

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Pogarsky District

Pogarsky District (Пога́рский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #13-Z and municipalLaw #3-Z district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Bryansk Oblast, Russia.

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Pola Nirenska

Pola Nirenska (28 July 1910 — 25 July 1992), born Pola Nirensztajn, was a Polish-born Jewish performer of modern dance.

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Premiere (TV program)

Premiere is the first commercially sponsored television program to be broadcast in color.

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Producers' Showcase

Producers' Showcase is an American anthology television series that was telecast live during the 1950s in compatible color by NBC.

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Ralph Votapek

Ralph Votapek (born 1939 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American pianist notable for winning the First Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1962.

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Richard Tucker

Richard Tucker (August 28, 1913January 8, 1975) was an American operatic tenor.

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Roberta Peters

Roberta Peters (May 4, 1930 – January 18, 2017) was an American coloratura soprano.

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Rolando Valdés-Blain

Rolando Valdés-Blain (8 March 19222 April 2011) was a Cuban classical guitarist, born in Havana, and immigrated to New York as a child.

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Second City Television

Second City Television, commonly shortened to SCTV, is a Canadian television sketch comedy show that ran between 1976 and 1984.

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Sergio Franchi

Sergio Franchi (April 6, 1926 – May 1, 1990), born Sergio Franci Galli, was an Italian-American tenor and actor who enjoyed success in the United States and internationally after gaining notice in Britain in the early 1960s.

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Sol (given name)

Sol is a given name, usually a form of "Solomon".

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Teresa Sterne

Teresa Sterne (also known as Teresa Rosenbaum and Tracey Sterne) (March 29, 1927 – December 10, 2000) was an American concert pianist and record producer.

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The Ansonia

The Ansonia is a building on the Upper West Side of New York City, located at 2109 Broadway, between West 73rd and West 74th Streets.

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Tonight We Sing

Tonight We Sing is a 1953 musical biopic film, directed by Mitchell Leisen, based on the life and career of the celebrated impresario Sol Hurok.

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Trudi Schoop

Trudi Schoop (October 9, 1904 – July 14, 1999) was a comedic dancer who pioneered the treatment of mental illness with dance therapy.

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Uday Shankar

Uday Shankar (8 December 1900 – 26 September 1977) was an Indian dancer and choreographer, best known for creating a fusion style of dance, adapting European theatrical techniques to Indian classical dance, imbued with elements of Indian classical, folk, and tribal dance, which he later popularised in India, Europe, and the United States in 1920s and 1930s.

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University of Pennsylvania Glee Club

Founded in 1862, the University of Pennsylvania Glee Club is one of the oldest continually running glee clubs in the United States and the oldest performing arts group at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Van Cliburn

Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (July 12, 1934February 27, 2013) was an American pianist who, at the age of 23, achieved worldwide recognition when he won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow in 1958 (during the Cold War).

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Vladimir Atlantov

Vladimir Andreyevich Atlantov (Владимир Андреевич Атлантов; born 19 February 1939), PAU, is a Soviet and Russian operatic tenor.

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Wanda Wiłkomirska

Wanda Wiłkomirska (11 January 1929 – 1 May 2018) was a Polish violinist and academic teacher.

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Wassily de Basil

Wassily de Basil (16 September 1888 – 27 July 1951), usually referred to as Colonel W. de Basil, was a Russian ballet impresario.

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1962 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1962.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Hurok

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