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At moments her Rose sounds as if Carnegie Hall was her bygone dream for herself, not the vaudeville circuit.

Unfolding across two timelines, the show follows the golden age Cuban musicians as they navigate Havana’s segregated social scene at the onset of the Cuban Revolution, and 40 years later during their twilight years as they hurtle toward the Carnegie Hall concert depicted in the documentary.

It took two decades to reach America — premiering at Carnegie Hall in June 1954 — but it quickly seized hold in the classical scene here, very rapidly becoming the most performed, and most recorded, choral compositions of the century.

Indeed, after a bluesy “Oh! Darling” and a throbbing “We Can Work It Out,” the LP closes with a stunning live rendition of one of Paul McCartney’s prettiest songs that Flack recorded at Carnegie Hall back in 1972.

As a child, Flack aspired to be an opera singer or concert pianist and dreamed of playing Carnegie Hall, a dream that eventually came true.