The New Hampshire Philharmonic

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Laura Knoy

Agee - Knoxville: Summer, 1915

Sunday Classics 2010

Renowned radio host Laura Knoy brings her vocal gifts to the stage of the Philharmonic in a recitation of Knoxville: Summer, 1915 by James Agee.

For twelve years, Laura Knoy has hosted the award-winning New Hampshire Public Radio program "The Exchange". The show is the Granite State's only statewide, public-affairs radio call-in program. Laura is a veteran of public radio in Washington, D.C. and a graduate of Keene (N.H.) High School. Prior to hosting "The Exchange," Laura worked in public radio in Washington, D.C., for seven years. For 3 1/2 years, Knoy worked as an announcer, reporter, and occasional host at National Public Radio headquarters in Washington, D.C. From 1988 to 1992, Knoy worked as a local reporter and announcer for WAMU, a Washington, D.C. NPR affiliate station. Before her radio career, Ms. Knoy was a researcher for USA Today's "Money" section, and a research assistant at the Institute for International Economics.

Today's performance marks Ms. Knoy's fifth appearance with the New Hampshire Philharmonic. Ms. Knoy narrated the Drawn to the Music project's versions of Ravel's Mother Goose Suite in 2009, Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition in 2008 and Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf in 2007, as well as the orchestra's performance of Poulenc's Babar in 2006.

At today's performance, Ms. Knoy will recite a section from the prose-poem Knoxville: Summer, 1915 by James Agee from the stage, prior to the orchestra's performance of the musical work of the same name by Samuel Barber.