Sylvia McNair to Appear at CTS
As part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Christian Theological Seminary, soprano Sylvia McNair will appear in concert at 3:00 on Sunday, November 23, in the seminary’s Sweeney Chapel. In a rare treat for fans of great music, Sylvia McNair will fill Sweeney Chapel with songs both sacred and secular.
Sylvia McNair’s 25-year career as one of the world’s leading singers has brought her two Grammy Awards, over 70 recordings and worldwide accolades. In recent years, she has segued from opera and oratorio to the Great American Songbook, the music with which she feels most at home. Now, instead of singing “V’adoro pupille” as Cleopatra to Julius Caesar on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, she’s singing “Embraceable You” to rave reviews.
Barrymore Lawrence Scherer in the Wall Street Journal wrote (March 2007): “In recent years, such first-rank classical artists as Renee Fleming and Sylvia McNair have proved adept at jazz vocals. The idiom is in their blood”.
Tickets are still available for $25 each. Call (317) 931-2310 to order by phone or visit www.cts.edu/events.
