Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
Carlisle Floyd Quotes
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
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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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