Synopsis

The second of six concerts during the 91st season of Henry Wood's Promenade Concerts. Introduced by Jane Glover, who makes her Prom debut as conductor of the London Mozart Players. The evening features Paul Barritt. Tonight’s program offers a delightful sequence: Schubert’s Symphony No. 5 in B flat, composed when he was just nineteen years old; Samuel Barber’s *Knoxville: Summer of 1915*, with solo soprano Yvonne Kenny, a tender and nostalgic setting of a poem by James Agee about the re