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 Read Quote
There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way. Carlisle Floyd Read Quote
The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do. Carlisle Floyd Read Quote
Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations. Carlisle Floyd Read Quote
If something is successful with the audience, it’s automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive! Carlisle Floyd Read Quote
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. Carlisle Floyd Read Quote
I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the scenes have the shape I think they have musically and dramatically. Carlisle Floyd Read Quote
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them. Carlisle Floyd Read Quote
Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast. Carlisle Floyd Read Quote
I’ve never set out consciously to write American music. I don’t know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references. Carlisle Floyd Read Quote