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Author Holliday, Thomas

Title Falling up : the days and nights of Carlisle Floyd : the authorized biography / Thomas Holliday ; with a foreword by Plácido Domingo
Edition 1st edition
Published Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2013
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 509 pages : illustrations
Contents With a Foreword by Plácido Domingo -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- 1 The Cradle -- 2 Where�s Daddy? -- 3 Golden Days -- 4 Dark Adolescence -- 5 Escape -- 6 Swimming with Yankees -- 7 Young Professor Floyd Writes an Opera -- 8 Women, and Other -- 9 “The Old Girl, � -- 10 The Short, Fast Fall to Fame -- 11 The Climb to Wuthering Heights -- 12 The Grand One -- 13 At the Oars -- 14 Of Mice, Men, Martyrs, Flowers, Hawks -- 15 Completed Circle
16 Synthesizing Opera and Music Theater17 Falling Down -- 18 Standing Up -- 19 Looking Back, Moving On Back -- 20 Unmatched Experience -- 21 Late Fruits -- 22 Twilight in Tallahassee -- Mysteries of South Carolina -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary Carlisle Sessions Floyd the minister, the father of Carlisle Sessions Floyd the composer (the subject of this biography), graduated from Wofford College
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-473) and index
Notes English
Subject Floyd, Carlisle
SUBJECT Floyd, Carlisle fast
Subject Composers -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians.
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
MUSIC -- Lyrics.
MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal.
Composers
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012038544
ISBN 9780815651956
0815651953