Which childhood moments determine the adults we become? At age 9, composer Johannes Brahms was not yet the living successor to Mozart and Beethoven. He was just a very creative child whose parents very nearly sent him to America for a touring life of carnivals and minstrel shows. Who would this American Brahms have become, and what would the world, and the other Brahms have thought of him? With glorious music from a tremendous cast of players, Tom Allen brings us to 1880s Vienna for a chance meeting between the life that was, and the life that could have been.
