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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Irma Gonzalez, soprano; Elena Nikolaidi, contralto; Raoul Jobin, tenor; Mack Harrell, baritone; Westminster Choir and New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia, 16 sides). The first three movements are performed with more passion than pace; both the singing and the recording in the choral movement come off with some screeching and muffled sounds...
Summer Concert Series (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts NBC Symphony. Soloist: Contralto Elena Nikolaidi...
Dark-eyed Elena Nikolaidi, assured and lovely in a pale taffeta gown, stepped out on the stage of Manhattan's Town Hall, composed her hands and began to sing. Her voice, ranging from a mellow low contralto to a brilliant mezzo-soprano, glided through songs by Gluck, Haydn, Schubert, Rossini, Mahler, Ravel and De-Falla; the performance came to an end with the Sleep-Walking Scene from Verdi's Macbeth. The audience shuffled their programs to look at the name again. Thirtyish Elena Nikolaidi, making her U.S. debut and almost unknown outside Athens and Vienna, had achieved...
...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...
Petite, fiery Elena Nikolaidi was enjoying the sensation. Reporters found her in a modest hotel on upper Broadway, with her husband Thanos Mellos and her two-year-old son Michael. She hadn't made up her mind which, if any, of the morning's offers she was going to accept. She was pleased, but not entirely surprised...