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Name: Carlisle Floyd
Birth Date: June 11, 1926
Place of Birth: Latta, South Carolina, United States
Gender: Male
Occupations: composer, dramatist

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Biography of Carlisle Floyd
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Carlisle Floyd (born 1926) brought abilities as librettist and dramatist to the composition of opera. Writing mostly in the verismo tradition, Floyd achieved considerable success with his third opera, Susannah, although he continued to refine and...


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Carlisle Floyd (born June 11, 1926, in Latta, South Carolina) is an American opera composer. The son of a Methodist minister, many of his works are based on themes from the South. His best known opera, Susannah (1955), is based a story in the so-called...


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Carlisle Floyd revisits `Wuthering Heights'
03/05/1993: 1,326 words, approx. 4 pages
In 1953-4 an aspiring American concert pianist still in his 20s took it into his head to compose an opera "on the side," and he did. Carlisle Floyd's "Susannah" has since become an American classic. There have been almost 700 performances to date,...
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Carlisle
10/30/2003: 738 words, approx. 3 pages
Carlisle, Pacers quell Detroit Indiana coach beats club that fired him Associated Press Thursday, October 30, 2003 Jermaine O'Neal had 22 points and 15 rebounds Wednesday night as the Indiana Pacers held on for an 89-87 victory over the Detroit...
 


 

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