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Falling Up - The Days and Nights of Carlisle Floyd, The Authorized Biography (Hardcover, New)
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Falling Up - The Days and Nights of Carlisle Floyd, The Authorized Biography (Hardcover, New)
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Actors know about "falling up" a split-second ignition from the
wings, propelling entrance as a new character, an unwilled ascent
to a different mode of being, an in-body experience that overlays
preparation, opportunity, choice, or chance. Falling Up, the first
and only full-length Floyd study, is a metaphor for humanity's
uncanny ability to rise from seeming disaster into rebirth. Floyd's
consistent succession of soars, stumbles, slides, or wrenches sings
of triumph over odds. A modern Renaissance man, Floyd is our
greatest living opera composer and librettist, a trained concert
pianist, a master stage director, and a teacher. In Falling Up,
Holliday offers an intimate account of the life that shaped the
words and music. Combining insights from hundreds of interviews
with Floyd, his family, and many of the last half-century's
greatest singers, conductors, and opera administrators, Falling Up
traces Floyd's Southern roots and the struggles and sacrifices that
accompanied his rise to operatic stardom. With more than forty
photographs, the detailed evolution of Floyd's fourteen operas, and
in-depth analysis of his nonoperatic works, Falling Up is essential
reading for opera fans and professionals alike, a book that moves,
informs, and entertains.
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