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 self-linksurface differs
surface form: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (prose text by James Agee)
commissionedBy Eleanor Steber
composer Samuel Barber
compositionYear 1947
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: 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 of America
surface form: 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 Southern United States
surface form: 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 self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (prose text by James Agee)