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Carlisle Floyd Quotes
I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
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| Birth: | 11th June, 1926 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Composer |
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Carlisle Floyd is an American opera composer. The son of a Methodist minister, he based many of his works on themes from the South. His best known opera, Susannah, is based on a story from the Apocrypha, transferred to contemporary, rural Tennessee, and is set in a Southern dialect.
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