Goin' to Town

William Walton Portsmouth Point Overture 

Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915  Rachel Mellman soprano 

Mozart Symphony #36 "Linz" 

Boisterous and bawdy Sir William Walton’s imagination of Portsmouth in 1800 was a rowdy sailor’s town crowded with eye patches rotten teeth peglegs and parrots on the shoulder. Samuel Barber’s setting of the prologue to James Agee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “A Death in the Family” is one of the real gems of nostalgic Americana. Soprano Rachel Mellman will sing its memorable text. The Symphony #36 by Mozart is not about a city but for a city: Linz Austria. Cities in imagination in memory and in dedication. All in music.

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