The repertoire of American singer Jessye Norman (born 1945) encompassed an uncommonly wide range, from Monteverdi to Boulez. Her rich soprano voice, however, was sometimes plagued by problems of voice production. Jessye Norman was born on September 15,...

Jessye Norman sang last night in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall and everyone was impressed, of course, by the sheer power of her voice, the opulence and variety of tone, the exemplary control of every nuance, the mastery of more than half a dozen...

In a touching note she prepared for her new Christmas album, soprano Jessye Norman recalls her childhood in Augusta, Ga., where she appeared annually in the church pageant and caroled till dawn off the back of a huge lumber truck. "Donald Fraser," she writes,...

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 15, the 259th day of 2004. There are 107 days left in the year. The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, begins at sunset.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 15, 1963, four black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday...

New York's wealthy power brokers united in mourning with its working-class citizens Friday as the city that Brooke Astor loved so dearly bid a bittersweet farewell to the philanthropist and society fixture.Astor's wooden casket sat on the altar inside St. Thomas Church on Manhattan's Fifth...