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Sylvia McNair.(On the Beat)(opera singer switches to pop)(Brief Article)
In the June 2003 issue of OPERA NEWS, SYLVIA McNAIR discussed her decision to abandon opera and take up singing pop. This news did give me a momentary pang, since I am a great admirer of McNair's best work. (Her recording of Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 knocks the spots off most of the competition.) But on February 4, I saw proof of her career switch when she made her first appearance at the Algonquin Hotel's famed room in a program of pop-music standards. Wearing a stunning, low-cut red leather dress, she opened with Albert Hague and Arnold B. Horwitt's "This Is All Very New ...
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