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Floyd, Carlisle

LC control no.n 85186919
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LC classificationML410.F645 Biography
Personal name headingFloyd, Carlisle
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1926-06-11
Death date2021-09-30
Place of birthLatta (S.C.)
Place of deathTallahassee (Fla.)
Field of activityComposition (Music)
Profession or occupationComposers
Librettists
Found inHis Willie Stark, c1981: t.p. (Carlisle Floyd)
Koshgarian, R. Am. orchestral music, 1992 (Floyd, Carlisle; b. 1926)
en.wikipedia.org, Nov. 8, 2013 (Carlisle Floyd (born June 11, 1926, in Latta, South Carolina) is an American opera composer)
New York times online, viewed October 1, 2021 (obituary dated September 30, 2021: Carlisle Floyd; Carlisle Sessions Floyd; born June 11, 1926, in Latta, S.C.; died Thursday [September 30] in Tallahassee, Fla., at 95; composer-librettist whose operas explored the passions and prejudices of the South in lyrical tales that drew on rural fundamentalism, the Great Depression, the aftermath of the Civil War and other regional themes)