Samuel Barber:  Knoxville: Summer of 1915

Samuel Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915

Soon after Samuel Barber was commissioned by soprano Eleanor Steber to compose a work for her, he stumbled upon a long prose poem by James Agee, published in The Partisan Review. “Knoxville: Summer of 1915” was a deceptively simple piece that, as its author later...