MSO Pops: Sparkling Gershwin to toast in the New Year
From ThirdCoast Digest, Dec. 31, 2011
VanDenBoom and Cole possess pleasing, vernacular voices. McNair inhabits a different vocal plane. But she is that rare opera type who really gets the popular song. She reined in the vibrato and played to the microphone perfectly. Her matchless enunciation not only delivered the words and their sentiments, but also helped to etch the rhythms. Her wonderfully pure Summertime, purged of all diva carrying-on, is among the best I’ve ever heard.
