By the time he and Nureyev met in 1963, Hurok had been booking the best in the business for more than half a century, Melba and Chaliapin; Pavlova, Duncan, and Mary Wigman; Andres Segovia,
Artur Rubenstein, Van Cliburn, and Marian Anderson.
More than 2,000 world leaders of business, government, the professions, education, and the arts, including Albert Schweitzer, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Thornton Wilder, and
Artur Rubenstein gathered for the Goethe bicentennial.