 Well, next up, Soprano, Jesse Norman. She's moved in delighted audiences the world over since her debut performance in 1969. Though known for her commanding stage presence of wild and wide repertoire, it is her uniquely expressive voice that critics and the public adore and find hard to pigeonhole. She's been honored and celebrated by just about every institution possible, including in 1997 becoming the youngest ever recipient of the very prestigious Kennedy Center Honor. She continues to astonish us with her performances which really define world class. Ladies and gentlemen, the great Jesse Norman. One's life has value, so long as one attributes value to the lives of others. By means of love, friendship, indignation, and compassion, these are the words of Simone de Beauvoir. With these words, which I would think all of us in this room have long ago taken to heart as a philosophy, as a guide to living, I wish to thank everyone of the Sackler Center First Awards for including me in this extraordinary group of amazingly accomplished women and altogether wonderful people. I am humbled by your generosity. Please allow me to offer my heartfelt congratulations to all of my sister honorees, my, my, what a group. Rest assured, ladies and gentlemen, that I am well aware on whose broad and proud shoulders I stand in my profession and that it is simply my duty, my honor, and my privilege to hold high the banners imprinted with names that you know so well. Lentine Price, Marian Anderson, Duke Ellington, Paul Robeson, Ella Fitzgerald. The list is far longer than just these five and the responsibility to walk through the doors that they have opened so bravely and with such strength and where they, through their undeniable gifts and contributions, have thereby turned on the lights in times of discouraging darkness so that those of us lucky enough to follow them might see our way more clearly. For this, I have more gratitude and pride than is easy to express in my own words. So please allow me to use one further quotation. As this one makes my feelings this evening rather clearer, I think. The words of George Bernard Shaw. I'm sure in his heart it was a feminist. I am of the opinion that life belongs to the community and as long as I live, I shall do for it all that I can. Life is no brief candle to me but is rather a sort of splendid torch which I'm permitted to hold for a moment. And I intend to make it burn as brightly as possible before passing it on to future generations. Unquote. Understand well, ladies and gentlemen, that the ancestors had their own way of saying precisely the same thing. And it goes something like this. This little light of my shine. This little light of shine. This.