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From: Opera News
Date: 20011201
Author:Myers, Eric

"THE LAND WHERE THE GOOD SONGS GO: THE LYRICS OF P. G. WODEHOUSE" Music by Kern, Porter, Gershwin, Novello. Blier, piano. Harbinger Records HCD1901 (Empire Music, dist.)

"I'm not just an opera singer," Sylvia McNair recently told OPERA NEWS, "I'm an in-between singer. I'm happiest straddling both sides of the fence." These Broadway and West End musical numbers from the Teens and '20s fall smack into that transitional period when American and British musical-comedy singing was still heavily informed by nineteenth-- century operetta styles, and they are a perfect fit for McNair. P. G. ...

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