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...playing. But last March, after his first Carnegie Hall recital in six years, the same judges shook their saddened heads, damned him as a perfunctory performer. They conceded that Iturbi still had his nimble technique, delicate shadings and tone colors. But, as the Herald Tribune's Jerome D. Bohm put it, that made it "all the more regrettable" that he "should care so little about the profounder aspects...
Wrote Herald Tribune Music Critic Jerome D. Bohm in next morning's paper: "In 20 years of music reviewing and in twice that number spent in listening to most of the world's best singers, I have encountered no greater voice or vocalist ... a true contralto of enormous range . . . Where have the Metropolitan's talent scouts been that they have neglected to engage [Elena Nikolaidi]?" Said the Times: ". . . Rare brilliance . . . eminent musicality . . . velvety smoothness." By 10 a.m., phone calls were buzzing in from Impresario S. Hurok, Chicago, San Francisco-and the Met itself...
...show didn't sell well; neither did a subsequent one. In 1919 some of his friends-including Sickert and Max Beer-bohm-gave Walter Greaves a big dinner and a check for ?150. He died, grey and penniless, in 1930 in a London almshouse, dejected because the authorities would not let him blacken his hair, so that it would be like Whistler...
...prospect, it looked like just another Manhattan debut, of which there are 300 every year. The New York Times did not even send a critic to Carnegie Hall. The Herald Tribune sent its second-stringer, Jerome D. Bohm. He and a tiny audience of ushers and friends of the artist had the 2,800-seat Carnegie Hall to themselves...
...hours later, Jerome Bohm reported excitedly: "Entirely unheralded, the finest woman pianist since Teresa Carreno* made her North American debut. ... It would scarcely be possible to imagine a more searching, tonally ravishing interpretation...