Knoxville: Summer of 1915

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Knoxville: Summer of 1915 is a lyrical orchestral song by Samuel Barber, set to a prose text by James Agee that nostalgically evokes childhood memories of a summer evening in early 20th-century Knoxville, Tennessee.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf concert work
orchestral song
vocal-orchestral composition
basedOn Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (prose text by James Agee)
commissionedBy Eleanor Steber
composer Samuel Barber
compositionYear 1947
countryOfOrigin United States
dedication Eleanor Steber
duration approximately 15 minutes
genre 20th-century classical music
lyrical orchestral song
key A major
language English
movementCount 1
notableRecordingArtist Dawn Upshaw
Leontyne Price
Renée Fleming
orchestration brass
harp
percussion
strings
woodwinds
period 20th century
premiereCity Boston
premiereConductor Serge Koussevitzky
premiereCountry United States
premiereOrchestra Boston Symphony Orchestra
premierePerformer Eleanor Steber
premiereYear 1948
scoring soprano and orchestra
setting Knoxville, Tennessee
style neo-Romantic
subject childhood memories
early 20th-century Knoxville, Tennessee
summer evening
textAuthor James Agee
textLaterIncorporatedIn A Death in the Family
textPublicationYear 1938
textSource James Agee’s autobiographical prose
textType prose
theme American South
family life
nostalgia
vocalRange soprano

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Samuel Barber notableWork Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Knoxville: Summer of 1915 basedOn Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (prose text by James Agee)
linked to: Knoxville: Summer of 1915