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In the style of McCormack and McEwan yet surpassing them, singing opera, religious music and arias from Handel, Bach and Schubert, Scots and Irish song, show tune duets and more, in a voice whose beauty and sensitivity stops you in your tracks.n---------------------------------------------------nMost surprisingly (perhaps through hearing Red Red Rose played forte, thinking him very full-throated) he expressed deep feeling not by power-drilling, One-Cornetto-ing, warbling, rrrr-rolling his Rs in the tiresome way of our young tenors, or cascading vocally downwards like some fat owl tumbling off its perch. Instead, in this work at the height of his powers from the 1950s and late 1970s, he used perfect phrasing and technique, delicacy, pathos, falsetto and high-note fades to express powerful emotion without sentimentality, achieving song-endings which can tear at the guts.---------------------------nnn-----------------------------------------------nnnnDespite appeals from people such as Sir Alexander Gibson, founder of Scottish Opera, McKellar turned his back on a full-time operatic career after only two years, disliking the "goldfish bowl" environment.nnHe signed with and remained with Decca records for 25 years, selling millions of albums worldwide, becoming better known as a Scots artist than a classical artist, with numerous TV and touring appearances.n-----------------------------------------nAs a result, American collector Kevin D'Arcy says he suffered from being "in a no-man's land. Most of the classical world ignored him, because he chose not to pursue a career in opera or classical Lieder, and the folkies thought him too high-falutin' for their tastes." Scots folk music was also moving away to very different song styles, while the Gaelic tradition has been firmly guarded. But today, crossovers and/or twin careers involving classical and other musical genres prove much more acceptable for a host of singers and musicians.
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