Day: June 25, 2014

Front facade of Houghton Library

Steber and Knoxville: Summer of 1915

In April 1948 concertgoers at Symphony Hall in Boston listened as Eleanor Steber sang for them of summer evenings: It has become that time of evening when people sit on their porches, rocking gently and talking gently and watching the street… The words are James Agee’s, excerpted from a portrait of his boyhood in Knoxville…