What is American music? The... by Carlisle Floyd, an American Composer

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“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.”

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Carlisle Floyd

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Name: Carlisle Floyd

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Jun 11, 1926

Profession: Composer

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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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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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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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It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.

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