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PublisherSyracuse University Press

ISBN-100815610033

ISBN-139780815610038

eBay Product ID (ePID)143624967

Product Key Features

Number of Pages440 Pages, 534 Pages

Publication NameFalling Up : the Days and Nights of Carlisle Floyd, the Authorized Biography

LanguageEnglish

SubjectComposers & Musicians, Entertainment & Performing Arts

Publication Year2013

TypeTextbook

AuthorThomas Holliday

Subject AreaBiography & Autobiography

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight53.1 Oz

Item Length11.6 in

Item Width8.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2012-038544

ReviewsA heroic story of a truly remarkable individual, told in meticulous detail by an author whose sympathy and understanding derives from his own experience of his subject's field. . . . A thoroughly enjoyable and informative book, certainly not the last word, but stamped with resounding authority and undoubted affection., A heroic story of a truly remarkable individual, told in meticulous detail by an author whose sympathy and understanding derives from his own experience of his subject's field....A thoroughly enjoyable and informative book, certainly not the last word, but stamped with resounding authority and undoubted affection.

IllustratedYes

SynopsisActors 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., 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberML410.F645H65 2012