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It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.
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Birth: | 11th June, 1926 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Composer |
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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