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Knoxville is a stage musical with a book by Frank Galati, music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens. The musical is based on the novel A Death in the Family written by James Agee , which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction upon its release in 1957.
James Rufus Agee (/ ˈ eɪ dʒ iː / AY-jee; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic.In the 1940s, writing for Time, he was one of the most influential film critics in the United States.
A film entitled All The Way Home (1963), adapted by Philip H. Reisman, Jr. from the Agee novel and the Mosel play, was filmed in the same Knoxville neighborhood where Agee grew up. A TV-movie presentation of All the Way Home, starring Joanne Woodward and Richard Kiley aired on NBC in 1971 as a presentation of the Hallmark Hall of Fame.
Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 is a lush, richly textured work. Setting music to excerpts from "Knoxville: Summer of 1915", a 1938 prose poem by James Agee that later became a preamble to his posthumously published, Pulitzer Prize-winning book, A Death in the Family (1957), Barber paints an idyllic, nostalgic picture of Agee's native Knoxville, Tennessee.
The fatal wreck happened in 1952 and movie lore suggests it was witnessed by James Agee, who passed the story on to Mitchum. The hit song from the movie mentioned Cumberland Gap, Maynardville and ...
The historic Sam E. Hill School - or at least part of it - is being preserved as part of a new 150,000-square-foot park and community center development blending the Lonsdale neighborhood's past ...
Fort Sanders is named for a Civil War-era Union bastion that once stood near the center of the neighborhood, which was the site of a key engagement in 1863. Before the Union occupation of Knoxville began, Fort Sanders was often referred to as “Fort Loudon” by the occupying Confederate troops. [1]
The Bijou Theatre is a theater located in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States.Built in 1909 as an addition to the Lamar House Hotel, the theater has at various times served as performance venue for traditional theatre, vaudeville, a second-run moviehouse, a commencement stage for the city's African-American high school, and a pornographic movie theater.