“Jessye Norman, Deeper than Diva”
“Jessye Norman graced the Kennedy Center Concert Hall Monday night…Robed in billows of purple and black, she sang, via Strauss and Berg, of youth and spring. And for these seasons of Lent and Passover, she essayed the Catholic ecstasies of Messiaen and the brooding devotions of Ravel’s ‘Deux Melodies Hebraique’. The burning intense Messiaen and Ravel were the best scores on the program…(she had) in Ann Schein, strong of mind, ear and hand, a glittering partner and pianist.”