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Carlisle Floyd Summary Carlisle Floyd (born 1926) brought abilities as librettist and dramatist to the composition of opera. Carlisle Floyd was born in Latta, South Carolina, on June 11, 1926. Carlisle Floyd (born 1926 in Latta, South Carolina) is an American opera composer. www.bookrags.com /Carlisle_Floyd   (1021 words)

Carlisle Floyd - Music Downloads - Online Floyd's quartal and quintal musical language creates melody and harmony inspired by American folk tunes, and sometimes with dramatic qualities of Puccini and Hindemith. Floyd's output is primarily vocal (opera and song), and he writes all his own librettos. Floyd studied piano with Ernst Bacon at Converse College and then at Syracuse University (finishing in 1946). musicstore.connect.com /artist/586/Carlisle-Floyd/1007429.html   (490 words)

Carlisle Floyd - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15) Floyd's style is generally conservative, melodic, and lyrical, though also increasingly complicated and eclectic. Floyd also has written nonoperatic choral pieces, e.g., Citizen of Paradise (1993) and A Time to Dance (1994), and is a conductor and noted teacher. Carlisle Floyd receives new attention for his opera `Susannah'. www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-floydcarl.html   (354 words)

NEA News Room: 2004 National Medal of Arts - CARLISLE FLOYD Carlisle Floyd is the most important American opera composer and librettist in our nation’s history. The element that makes Floyd stand out among his peers is his ability to write successful operas that capture what it is to live in the United States. Floyd has received honors from arts organizations, educational establishments, and governments and in 2001 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. www.nea.gov /news/news04/medals/Floyd.html   (433 words)

Obituary of Floyd Denman Carlisle, Comanche County, KSGenWeb Digital Library Floyd Denman Carlisle, son of Edro and Myra Carlisle, was born at Arkansas City, Kansas, April 23, 1892, and passed away at the Spears Sanitorium, Denver, Colorado, March 11, 1945, at the age of 52 years, 10 months and 11 days. Floyd was a member of the Fairview Methodist church and was greatly missed in that community when, because of failing health he was forced to retire from his farm and move to Coldwater. Carlisle was a kind and thoughtful husband and father, an industrious and successful farmer and a good neighbor. skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/comanche/library/obits/carlisle.htm   (556 words)

Desmond Byrne on Carlisle Floyd and Susannah Floyd coached me for two hours on the role of Blitch, and it was a bit overwhelming having the man who wrote the work telling you what he wants. Floyd is over 70 years old and somewhat frail, he is very elegant and extremely intelligent. Floyd will be giving a seminar on August 16 entitled "Portrait of the ‘30s: Inspiration for an Opera" at the Fenimore House Museum, N.Y. State Historical Society, Cooperstown, N.Y. For more information on the Glimmerglass Opera season, telephone (607) 547-2255. www.scena.org /lsm/sm2-9/sm2-9Byrne.html   (1540 words)

Carlisle Floyd Biography Carlisle Floyd is one of the foremost composers and librettists of opera in the United States today. Born in 1926 in Latta, South Carolina, the son of a Methodist minister, Floyd's experiences as a child were that of the Southern Bible Belt with its travelling preachers, revival meetings and strong sense of community. Piano and drawing were large parts of Floyd's life and, in fact, he expected to pursue a career in painting. www.evermore.com /azo/c_bios/floyd.php3   (519 words)

usOperaweb - Carlisle Floyd Interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15) Floyd’s operas reflect his background as a native of the south and the son of a Baptist minister. Floyd’s fifth opera, The Passion of Jonathan Wade is set in Columbia, South Carolina, at the beginning of the Reconstruction era. Floyd’s characters: the outsider (Susannah, Cathy in Wuthering Heights, George and Lennie in Of Mice and Men, Doll in Bilby’s Doll, Love Simpson and Rucker Lattimore in Cold Sassy Tree) and the person in conflict with him/herself (Olin Blitch in Susannah, Jonathan Wade and Celia Townsend in The Passion of Jonathan Wade, Willie Stark). www.usoperaweb.com /2002/september/floyd.htm   (6123 words)

Cinnabar Records Floyd’s operas are regularly performed in this country and in Europe; at least two of them have entered the permanent operatic repertoire. Floyd’s most recent operas, Bilby’s Doll (1976) and Willie Stark (1981) were both commissioned and produced by the Houston Grand Opera, the latter in association with the Kennedy Center. Floyd also completed a large-scale work for chorus, bass-baritone soloist, and orchestra entitled A Time to Dance, commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association and performed by the famed Westminster Choir and the San Antonio Symphony at the Association’s Biennial Convention in March, 1994. www.cinnabarrecords.com /floyd.html   (605 words)

Carlisle Floyd - USOperaWeb Interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15) In April 2000, Houston Grand Opera presented the world premiere of Carlisle Floyd's tenth opera, Cold Sassy Tree, based on the 1984 novel by Olive Ann Burns. Carlisle Floyd and Ian Campbell, General Director of San Diego Opera. Carlisle Floyd with Andrew Campbell, rehearsal accompanist for Cold Sassy Tree. www.usoperaweb.com /2001/february/jan_int.html   (1305 words)

Carlisle Floyd - Kingwood College Library Born in 1926, Floyd earned B.M. and M.M. degrees in piano and composition with Ernst Bacon at Syracuse University, studying piano additionally with Sidney Foster and, at theAspen Institute, with Rudolf Firkusny. Carlisle Floyd captures the American spirit in his operas as no other composer has attempted or succeeded in doing. Floyd with the National Medal of Arts, "For giving American opera its national voice in a series of contemporary classics rooted in American themes." At left, President George W. Bush and Laura Bush present the National Medal of Arts award to Carlisle Floyd. kclibrary.nhmccd.edu /floyd/index.html   (1229 words)

Carlisle Floyd Research Files, 1934-2000 - Gifts to Manuscripts Division 2004 (USCS) - South Caroliniana Library - ... Floyd earned both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at Syracuse University, where he studied composition with Ernst Bacon, and then served as professor of piano and composition at Florida State University from 1947 to 1976. Upon leaving Florida State, Floyd accepted the M.D. Anderson Professorship at the University of Houston and was both the professor of musical theater and co-director of the Houston Opera Studio. Included with the additions are copies of musical scores for Floyd’s operas “Susannah” (1955), “Wuthering Heights” (1958), “The Passion of Jonathan Wade” (1962, revised 1996), “The Sojourner and Mollie Sinclair” (1963), “Of Mice and Men” (1970), “Bilby’s Doll” (1976), and “Willie Stark” (1981), as well as his monodrama, “Flower and Hawk” (1972). www.sc.edu /library/socar/uscs/2004/floydc04.html   (220 words)

Floyd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Floyd is a variant spelling of the Welsh name Lloyd, which means grey. William Floyd, signer of the Declaration of Independence as a representative of New York. Floyd Pepper is the fictional bassist for the Muppet band, Dr. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Floyd   (220 words)

KET | Field Trip to the Kentucky Opera | Composer Carlisle Floyd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15) Known as one of the foremost composers and librettists of American opera, Carlisle Floyd was born in Latta, South Carolina on June 11, 1926. Floyd earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music at Syracuse University. His themes, such as the aftermath of the Civil War, the Great Depression, and rural fundamentalism, are used as backgrounds for the personal dramas of characters whose stories unfailingly engage the interest and sympathy of the audience. www.ket.org /trips/opera/composer.htm   (414 words)

OPERA America — The National Service Organization for Opera   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15) Carlisle Floyd (born 1926) is universally regarded as one of America's most renowned and popular composers of opera. About the work of Floyd, the eminent musicologist David Ewen wrote, "His operas, for which he has always provided his own librettos, are compelling theater, in which plot, stage action, characterization, diction, and music are skillfully coordinated. Following is a reprint of remarks by Carlisle Floyd to OPERA America's 27th Annual Conference in Philadelphia, April 28, 1997. www.operaamerica.org /audiences/learningcenter/special/floyd1.shtml   (4634 words)

Learn - Carlisle Floyd - Arizona Opera Floyd's subsequent operas include Wuthering Heights (1958), The Passion of Jonathan Wade (1962; revised in 1991), Of Mice and Men (1970), Bilby's Doll (1976), Willie Stark (1981), and Cold Sassy Tree (2000). In an article from the 1971 Opera Journal, Floyd relates that 'viewed from his angle, George therefore becomes the propelling force in the drama, the active character (as, indeed, he is in the Steinbeck book). The drama itself, to my mind, is a study of human attachment in an environment of harsh personal isolation and despair, and I feel that what Steinbeck is saying throughout is that even Georgeís unsatisfactory, but nevertheless tender, relationship with a slow-witted man-child is preferable to the loneliness and rootlessness of his fellow ranchhands'. www.azopera.com /learn.php?subcat=composerbios&composer=Floyd   (656 words)

classical music - andante - carlisle floyd's susannah Griffey has shown that he can be convincingly violent — as Lennie in Floyd's Of Mice and Men, for example — and with that plus his soft, lyric tenor, he could have captured the frightening duality of Sam. Instead, the darker elements of the role are ignored, and the fact that he's a drunk seems to have been avoided altogether. This young singer still seems unsure of her instrument, often constricting her top notes, but the quality of her voice seems almost perfectly matched to Floyd's heroine: its rough, lyric sound is neither too creamy nor too coarse. www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=18726   (968 words)

The Austin Chronicle Arts: Final Flowering: With 'Cold Sassy Tree,' Composer Carlisle Floyd Crafts an Opera to Crown ... The figure who brashly proposes a marriage of convenience to a woman young enough to be his daughter, who barrels through life without a care for what anyone might think of him, could hardly seem more different from this thoughtful, good-humored, gentlemanly composer. And yet, Carlisle Floyd is Rucker Lattimore, at least in the way that every good writer is every character he writes. Still, Floyd is mindful of the way his upbringing instilled in him qualities that have served him well during his long career, especially in the Seventies and Eighties, the lean years of opera. www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2001-01-12/arts_feature.html   (2643 words)

FSU.com :: Carlisle Floyd's American opera 'Susannah' returns to FSU stage that launched its 1955 debut Carlisle Floyd's American opera 'Susannah' returns to FSU stage that launched its 1955 debut Penned a half century ago by then-FSU music professor Carlisle Floyd, the distinctly Southern opera has returned to FSU and the Ruby Diamond Auditorium stage that launched its debut and Floyd's career in 1955. Born in Latta, S.C., Floyd received his bachelor's and master's degrees in piano composition at Syracuse University. www.fsu.com /pages/2005/10/31/CarlisleFloyd.html   (1039 words)

Washington University Opera to present Carlisle Floyd's Susannah March 24 and 25 Floyd wrote Susannah in 1955 as a direct response to the anti-communist witch hunts of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Yet the opera is also informed by his experiences growing up in rural South Carolina as the son of a Methodist preacher, and many of its themes — hypocrisy, mistrust and misunderstanding — remain all too relevant today. Floyd, who also serves as librettist for his operas, taught piano and composition for 30 years at Florida State University and later at the University of Houston. news-info.wustl.edu /news/page/normal/6794.html   (678 words)

Carlisle Floyd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15) Floyd, our featured guest speaker, will be joined by John Estacio, Composer-In-Residence for Calgary Opera and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra; John Murrell, renowned Canadian playwright; Kelly Robinson, stage director; and Valdine Anderson, Soprano. Admission for the panel discussion is free, followed by a reception in honour of Carlisle Floyd and our other guests (cash bar). Guest of honour, Carlisle Floyd, is one of the foremost composers and librettists of opera in the United States, whose more than a half century career is still going strong today. www.calgaryopera.com /NewFiles/Bravo/CarlisleFloyd.html   (245 words)

Carlisle Floyd Papers, 1946-2000 [Addition to] (Gifts to Manuscripts Division 2002 : South Caroliniana Library) As a result, Floyd, the South Carolina outsider, is suddenly having the kind of recognition Verdi enjoyed in midlife" [Boosey & Hawkes Newsletter, January 1999]. Of special interest is material relating to the 1990 Houston and 1999 San Diego productions of Floyd's revised version of "The Passion of Jonathan Wade," which is set in Civil War Columbia. Also included here are marked copies of a working draft of the libretto and of the music score for the first act (1998), a revised published version of the entire musical play (1999), and four audio tapes of a 1999 Aspen workshop production of it. www.sc.edu /library/socar/uscs/2002/floyd02.html   (439 words)

Floyd L. Carlisle | 20th Century American Leaders Database Carlisle purchased Northern New York Utilities with a group of paper manufacturers, which allowed St. Regis Paper and the other involved paper mills to control their own supply of electric power. Acquiring Hanna Paper Corporation in 1921, Carlisle's St. Regis Paper became the third largest paper manufacturing firm in the nation. Carlisle diversified St. Regis significantly when he led the company into the plastics field with the purchase of Panelyte Corporation in 1928. www.hbs.edu /leadership/database/leaders/129   (81 words)

PlaybillArts: Features: The Words Come First Of Mice and Men composer Carlisle Floyd is a rarity in the opera world — he writes his own librettos. And Floyd is in an especially authoritative position to talk about the matter since he is not only a popular American composer, but he is also his own librettist. When Floyd was first working on Of Mice and Men, he included a scene which he later cut, though not without first doing a lot of soul searching. www.playbillarts.com /features/article/202.html   (1340 words)

Carlisle Floyd - Classical music composer Carlisle Floyd became a piano professor at the Florida State University in 1947. Album DescriptionMuch of pianist/composer/improviser J. Floyd’s music is keyboard centered and in the last 10 years he has explored the fascinating musical possibilities of the YAMAHA Disklavier in his works. The music presented here combines voice and other instruments with the Disklavier and, as in all of Floyd’s work, reveals his abiding interest in jazz and free improvisation. www.classical-composers.org /comp/floyd   (1157 words)

classical music - andante - 'it just plain works' - carlisle floyd's cold sassy tree One could find plenty of reasons to criticize Carlisle Floyd's opera Cold Sassy Tree, which had its world premiere at Houston Grand Opera in April 2000. The bucolic setting more closely resembles Mayberry than any real small town in the South, and the music is conservative to the point of being reactionary — Floyd lives and writes in a world undisturbed by Schoenberg on the one hand or Glass on the other. But Floyd, with an unmatchable knack for the operatic craft, doesn't stop here; with the musical and dramatic tension pulled tight, he moves on to a towering credo of simple values and love of life, "I've Give You Eyes t'See th'World." www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=25805   (300 words)

AllRefer.com - Carlisle Floyd (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15) AllRefer.com - Carlisle Floyd (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia Carlisle Floyd, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies Carlisle Floyd (Carlisle Sessions Floyd, Jr.), 1926–, American composer, b. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/FloydCarl.html   (277 words)

Record: Washington University Opera to present Carlisle Floyd's *Susannah* March 24-25 The Washington University Opera will present Carlisle Floyd's Susannah, which updates the biblical story of Susannah and the elders to 1940s Appalachia, at 8 p.m. The performances are presented by the Department of Music in Arts and Sciences and will take place in Edison Theatre. Tickets are $18; $12 for students, seniors and WUSTL faculty and staff; and $7 for WUSTL students. record.wustl.edu /news/page/normal/6810.html   (614 words)

EASTMAN OPERA THEATRE PRESENTS CARLISLE FLOYD'S AMERICAN CLASSIC SUSANNAH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15) Any unsold tickets may be purchased at the theatre box office one hour prior to the start of each performance. In addition, a Susannah pre-performance event sponsored by the Friends of Eastman Opera (FEO) and featuring composer Carlisle Floyd will be held Thursday, April 1, at Max of Eastman Place (25 Gibbs St.). The event, which is open to the public, begins with a cash bar at 5 p.m., followed by dinner at 6 p.m. www.esm.rochester.edu /news/?id=169   (622 words)

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