Knoxville: Summer of 1915
by Dawn Upshaw
- Type: Album
- Released: 5 May 1989
- Label: Nonesuch
- Country: United States
- Length: 43:10
- Community rating: 4.25/5 from 1 rating
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Knoxville: Summer of 1915', Dawn Upshaw's debut for its label, was recorded at Manhattan Center Studios in August 1988 with David Zinman conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke's. Alongside Barber's setting of James Agee stand Harbison's 'Mirabai Songs' and excerpts by Menotti and Stravinsky, and the recording won the Grammy for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance.
Genres
Descriptors: female-vocals, orchestral, delicate, melodic, vocal
Tracklist
- Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (15:11)
- What a Curse for a Woman Is a Timid Man (4:18)
- Mirabai Songs: I. It's True, I Went to the Market (2:46)
- Mirabai Songs: II. All I Was Doing Was Breathe (2:49)
- Mirabai Songs: III. Why Mira Can't Go Back to Her Old House (2:05)
- Mirabai Songs: IV. Where Did You Go? (2:00)
- Harbison: Mirabai Songs: No. 5, Clouds (2:54)
- Mirabai Songs: VI. Don't Go, Don't Go (3:41)
- No Word from Tom (7:21)
Credits
- Dawn Upshaw - primary artist, soprano vocals
- Gian Carlo Menotti - composed by, words by
- John Harbison - composed by, liner notes
- Igor Stravinsky - composed by
- Samuel Barber - composed by
- John Newton - engineer
- Henk Kooistra - engineer [assistant]
- Robert Hurwitz - executive-producer
- Joyce Ravid - photography by [back]
- Joel Meyerowitz - photography by [front]
- Chester Kallman - words by
- James Agee - words by
- W. H. Auden - words by