Falling up [[electronic resource] ] : the days and nights of Carlisle Floyd : the authorized biography / / Thomas Holliday ; with a foreword by Plácido Domingo

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463536903321
• Autore: Holliday Thomas
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Syracuse, N.Y., : Syracuse University Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0-8156-5195-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (540 p.)
• Disciplina: 782.1092; B
• Soggetti: Composers - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""With a Foreword by Placido Domingo""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Abbreviations""; ""1 The Cradle""; ""2 Where's Daddy?""; ""3 Golden Days""; ""4 Dark Adolescence""; ""5 Escape""; ""6 Swimming with Yankees""; ""7 Young Professor Floyd Writes an Opera""; ""8 Women, and Other""; ""9 The Old Girl,""; ""10 The Short, Fast Fall to Fame""; ""11 The Climb to Wuthering Heights ""; ""12 The Grand One""; ""13 At the Oars""; ""14 Of Mice, Men, Martyrs, Flowers, Hawks""; ""15 Completed Circle""; ""16 Synthesizing Opera and Music Theater""""17 Falling Down""; ""18 Standing Up""; ""19 Looking Back, Moving On Back""; ""20 Unmatched Experience""; ""21 Late Fruits""; ""22 Twilight in Tallahassee""; ""Mysteries of South Carolina""; ""Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index""