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- Robert White, a versatile tenor, died March 17, 2026, in Manhattan at age 89 from metastatic prostate cancer.
- He began as a child singer and later became a prominent classical artist.
- White collaborated with Eugene Ormandy and Leonard Bernstein and conveyed emotion in song, likened to John McCormack.
- Born October 27, 1936, in the Bronx, he was one of six children in an Irish immigrant family.
