Knoxville is the subject of a piece for soprano and orchestra by the American composer [[Samuel Barber]]. "Knoxville, Summer of 1915", with words by James Agee. It is an invocation of small town America in the early 20th century. ("''We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee in the time I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child''".) | Knoxville is the subject of a piece for soprano and orchestra by the American composer [[Samuel Barber]]. "Knoxville, Summer of 1915", with words by James Agee. It is an invocation of small town America in the early 20th century. ("''We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee in the time I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child''".) |