Awsay Strok and His Asian Tours (1910s−1950s)
The Activities of an Impresario from 1910s to 1950s
Photos, Programs, Newspaper Articles
Programs are in the collection of Osaka College Of Music
Chronology
Born on February 28, (Julian calendar) in 1875 (Julian calendar), in a small Jewish settlement in the suburbs of Daugavpils, Latvia (then known as Dünaburg, later Dvinsk).
Photo: Strok’s birthplace of Daugavpils (2017), an idyllic Jewish village in the lake district 230 kilometers southeast of Riga in Latvia

His father, a war veteran, was a professional musician, and he had eight talented children.
The youngest brother, Oscar or Oskar Strok, was a pianist and later a popular tango composer, and the younger brother, Leo Strokoff, was a professional violinist in the United States.
