About Carlisle Floyd
Carlisle Floyd (June 11, 1926 – September 30, 2021) was an American opera composer. The son of a Methodist minister, he based many of his works on themes from the South. His best known opera, Susannah (1955), is based on a story from the Apocrypha, transferred to contemporary, rural Tennessee, and is set in a Southern dialect. In 1943, Floyd entered Converse College, in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and studied piano under Ernst Bacon. When Bacon accepted a position at Syracuse University
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Susannah / Act 1: "Ain't it a pretty night?"
Susannah / Act 2: "The trees on the mountain"
Susannah, Act One, Scene 2: Ain't It A Pretty Night?
Susannah, Act One, Scene 1: It's a hot night for dancin'
Susannah, Act One: Opening Music
Susannah, Act Two, Scene 3: The trees on the mountains are cold and bare
Susannah, Act One, Scene 1: I am the Reverend Olin Blitch
Susannah, Act One, Scene 2: Was y'ever at such a nice square dance, Little Bat?
Ain't It a Pretty Night
Susannah, Act Two, Scene 2: Come, sinner, tonight's the night
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