Friday, January 02, 2009

Samuel Barber, Knoxville: Summer of 1915

Samuel Barber, Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (c.1947)
work for voice and orchestra.The text is taken from a 1938 short prose piece from James Agee’s essay "Knoxville" and the introduction to his Pulitzer Prize-winning posthumous novel, A Death in the Family.

wiki intro
Pro Art rogram note
another Program note by Jed Gaylin (see full text here)

Leontyne Price "Knoxville: Summer of 1915" 1/2


Leontyne Price "Knoxville: Summer of 1915" 2/2

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