Musical Landscapes: Barber’s Adagio and Jeanine De Bique

Hailing from Trinidad and Tobago, soprano Jeanine De Bique leads an international operatic career and has garnered numerous distinctions. She makes her OSM debut in Samuel Barber’s operatic rhapsody Knoxville: Summer of 1915, which recounts a family’s evening together in a small Tennessee town. Also on the program are Barber’s deeply moving Adagio for Strings as well as works by Canadian composer Jean Coulthard and Venezuelan composer Inocente Carreño. The works featured are all connected through the concept of landscapes, places of birth and of dwelling, and of influence on the artist’s path.