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“It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.”
 
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Name:   Carlisle Floyd
 
Nationality:   American
 
Date of Birth:   Jun 11, 1926
 
Profession:   Composer
 
 
 
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If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.
 
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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.
 
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You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
 
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We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
 
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I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
 
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