Falling up : the days and nights of Carlisle Floyd : the authorized biography / Thomas Holliday ; with a foreword by Plácido Domingo.
- Title
- Falling up : the days and nights of Carlisle Floyd : the authorized biography / Thomas Holliday ; with a foreword by Plácido Domingo.
- Published by
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2013.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xxiii, 509 p. : ill.; 29 cm.
- Summary
- Carlisle Sessions Floyd the minister, the father of Carlisle Sessions Floyd the composer (the subject of this biography), graduated from Wofford College.
- Uniform title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Contents
- The cradle -- Where's daddy? -- Golden days -- Dark adolescence -- Escape -- Swimming with Yankees -- Young Professor Floyd writes an opera -- Women, and other Fugitives -- "The old girl," Susannah -- The short, fast fall to fame -- The climb to Wuthering Heights -- The grand one -- At the oars -- Of mice, men, martyrs, flowers, hawks, 1963-1972 -- Completed circle -- Synthesizing opera and music theater -- Falling down, 1981-1986 -- Standing up -- Looking back, moving on back -- Unmatched experience -- Late fruits -- Twilight in Tallahassee, 2003-2012 -- Appendix. Mysteries of South Carolina.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain