- McKay, Iver
[E] McKay, Iver, tenor vocalist, born in
Dublin. At the age of six he was a chorister
at the Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle, and in
the chapel of Dublin University ; and also
sang tenor at St. Patrick's Cathedral. After
some years spent in commercial pursuits, he
went to Italy. Not gaining instruction suit-
able for an English career, he returned to
London, and placed himself under T. A. Wall-
worth, and W. Shakespeare, to whose training
he attributes much of his success. He has
been heard at the principal London and
provincial concerts ; sang at the Leeds Festi-
vals of 1886, and 1889 ; created the tenor
part in Dvorak's Requiem, at the Birmingham
Festival, 1891, etc. In opera he appeared as
Lenski, in Tschaikowsky's " Eugene Onegin,"
at the New Olympic, October, 1892. He has
toured with Mr. Sims Reeves (1884), and has
gained an honourable position among singers
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