When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.
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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
I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
Carlisle Floyd
We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
Carlisle Floyd
I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.
Carlisle Floyd
Opera is given so little attention in the national press.
Carlisle Floyd
It's very easy to distance yourself from period pieces because either through costuming or whatever, they don't seem to be as much of our time.
Carlisle Floyd
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