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Apr 29, 2007 · LIEF--Ruth Hurok, daughter of impresario Sol Hurok died at home at the age of 99. She leaves a daughter Nessa Hyams Picker, a son Peter Hyams, three grandchildren, and two...
Hyams was born in New York City, New York, the son of Ruth Hurok and Barry Hyams, who was a theatrical producer and publicist on Broadway. His maternal grandfather was Sol Hurok, the Russian Jewish impresario. His stepfather was blacklisted conductor Arthur Lief. His sister is casting director Nessa Hyams. [1]
Mar 29, 1994 · A master of self-invention, Sol Hurok remains an enigmatic figure even after Harlow Robinson’s exhaustive account of his subject’s astonishing career, “The Last Impresario: The Life, Times and...
Robinson's book, aided by the impresario's only (much neglected) daughter, Ruth Hurok Lief, is full of good stories and is in itself a potted history of the arts in the U.S. during its subject's lifetime.
Jan 11, 1998 · The kindest man, a true gentleman with the heart of a radical. Conductor, voice teacher, opera translator, and music intellectual. Survived by his beloved wife of forty-five years Ruth Hurok...
Mar 5, 1994 · Thoroughly researched and documented, this biography attempts to establish the facts of Hurok's extraordinary life and career as they happened, not as the subject wished them portrayed (Hurok's highly fictionalized Impresario: A Memoir by S. Hurok was ghostwritten by his agent).
- Harlow Robinson
Tonight We Sing: Directed by Mitchell Leisen. With David Wayne, Ezio Pinza, Roberta Peters, Anne Bancroft. Story of the legendary impresario Sol Hurok and the many stars that he introduced and represented to the world of music.
