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Carlisle Floyd
American
Composer
Born:
Jun 11
,
1926
Always
American
Me
Music
People
Think
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I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.
Carlisle Floyd
Time
People
Resolved
Unorthodox
Seemingly
Investigate
Period
Salem
Going
Interested
Really
Treatment
Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
Carlisle Floyd
Other
Dramatic
Characters
Charged
Composer
Vivid
Highly
Contains
Like
Opera
Because
Subject
Any
Situations
Choose
Reasons
There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
Carlisle Floyd
Music
Wife
Society
Bacon
Kind
Some
He
Performance
Know
Wrote
His
Gets
Which
Fostered
Fourth
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.
Carlisle Floyd
Work
Music
Me
People
Amazing
Will
First
Lose
Young
Other
Say
Sight
Composers
Write
Generations
Instead
Come
Like
First Things
Audience
How
Being
Want
Gaining
Who
Credentials
Fast
Things
Rejected
Opera is given so little attention in the national press.
Carlisle Floyd
National
Press
Given
Attention
Opera
Little
Little Attention
You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
Carlisle Floyd
You
Will
Predict
Once
Possibly
Write
Attempt
Doomed
Ages
Last
People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.
Carlisle Floyd
People
Fall
High
Weaknesses
High Places
Factor
Because
Always
Surprised
Very
Places
Flawed
Therefore
Element
Suddenly
Basic
Humans
What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
Carlisle Floyd
Music
Natural
Kind
Diverse
Particular
Come
Particular Set
Most
Comfort
Answer
Sounds
Vernacular
American
Which
Regional
American Music
Across
Satisfying
Set
The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
Carlisle Floyd
Success
Me
Man
Destroyed
Willie
Possibly
Tackling
Could
Because
Demons
His
Personal
Want
Story
Who
Fascinated
Stark
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
Carlisle Floyd
Worship
Uncomfortable
Tends
Put
Talent
Because
America
Artist
Modest
Us
Position
I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
Carlisle Floyd
Will
Think
Honestly
Possible
Directly
Anything
Expressed
Last
I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
Carlisle Floyd
Music
Unless
Out
Would
Would-Be
Folk
Write
Never
Know
Obvious
References
American
American Music
Appalachian
Set
If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.
Carlisle Floyd
Say
Would
Come
Operas
Felt
Off
Did
Certainly
It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
Carlisle Floyd
Art
Me
Else
Relevant
Seems
Opera
Just
Anything
Anything Else
Expressive
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