String Orchestra of Brooklyn: American Reveries
American Reveries brings together three very different ideas of America. Ellington premiered Black, Brown and Beige at Carnegie Hall in 1943, describing the work as a musical parallel to the history of Black Americans. Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, written a few years later, sets James Agee’s recollection of an evening from his Tennessee childhood. Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances approaches America…