The presenter and audience reviews are in:

From Thallis Drake, Artistic Director of Musical Mondays of Milwaukee.
Well, between St. John’s and Lake Park Friends, you’ve just added 500+ adoring fans to your list ~ and have totally spoiled the Musical Monday’s audience for the rest of the summer. We’re only half way through the concerts and everyone I’ve spoken with claims last evening the zenith of the series! Your gracious charm and first-rate showmanship won everybody’s heart!!

From John Kvedaras, Club Manager for Symphony Center of Chicago
I have found Claudia (and Johnny) to be consummate professionals dedicated to delivering the best of their craft. It was a pleasure from planning through execution of their performance with us in the Club at Symphony Center. Our members and guests have continued to rave about that romantic evening when Claudia and Johnny brought them a welcome musical breeze right off the Seine. No one should miss this opportunity!

From Zoriana Siokalo, Michener Art Museum
Entertaining and educational — a perfect combo! The audience was very appreciative. I hope to see you back at the Museum. [And we did return the next season!]

From Didier and Jane Lepauw for Parisian Salon Concerts, Lake Forest, Illinois
Claudia is a love affair; she brings to mind a bit of Audrey Hepburn, with something of Ginger Rogers and Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier and ...Air Jordan. She is fresh, airborne.... To experience Claudia is to take off on a magical journey.

From a community performance at Oak Forest High School
By the end of the performance I wanted to marry you!— A new fan, Len Heine

Upon listening to “Romance Language”
—From Anne Votava, a fan in her 80s: Please tell Claudia I knew many of the tunes and it put me in a real good mood. It made me decide to slip a glass of wine.
—From Glenview Public Library, director John Blegen: I was delighted to see the brief item on Claudia Hommel in the June 2002 American Libraries. Claudia performs at libraries! In fact, that's where I first saw her perform, at the Northbrook (IL) Public Library in a tremendous program evoking Paris in the Jazz Age with the wonderful jazz violinist, Johnny Frigo. The library’s auditorium was jammed! I just wanted to add that I bought Claudia’s most recent album Romance Language and have thoroughly enjoyed it—great performances and a classy production (loved the booklet with the lyrics, too).

Pierre Saka (author of the Larousse encyclopedia of La chanson française à travers ses succès)
My country owes Claudia a debt of gratitude for bringing the best of French songs to the American public. Claudia brings a unique "swing" to these songs that rarely knew such tempos at their birth. “Bravo”. Paris.

From a new fan after an evening of Cole Porter:
It was a pleasure to meet you and discover a very persuasive practitioner of the French pop music idiom. More than projecting the very distinctive sound that we all associate with this genre, it takes a special sense of theatre—-not over-the-top (as so many singers tend to do) but certainly not without drama, whether subtly suggested or declaimed. You do it well. So, it’s to my gain to add you (or at least your recording) to my choice collection. You’re in good company-—Piaf, of course, plus Liane and her Boheme Bar Trio, Mireille Mathieu, Francoise Hardy, Jacqueline Francois, Jeanne Moreau, and Deborah Boily. Not without some significant gaps, but still a reasonable showing for someone with roots in Sweden and a heart that wants to belong to Paris.