THE VIEW FROM HERE
Standing at the window
Possibly the best mise en scene is by James Agee's Knoxville Summer of 1915:
Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24, is a 1947 work for voice and orchestra by Samuel Barber, with text from a 1938 short prose piece by James Agee. The work was commissioned by soprano Eleanor Steber, who premiered it in 1948 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Serge Koussevitzky. Although the piece is traditionally sung by a soprano, it may also be sung by tenor. The text is in the persona of a male child.
My late friend Bob Levine shared the piece with me and also gave me a DVD of the piece. We loved sharing music. I think he also introduced me to FAURE'S REQUIEM.
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