It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one … - Carlisle Floyd

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I think the reason people connect so well with my music is because there is a real connection.

Carlisle Floyd

It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.

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It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

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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.

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What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.

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