Falling Up: The Days and Nights of Carlisle Floyd
The authorized biography of Carlisle Floyd, America’s greatest and most prolific opera composer.
Holliday’s lecture previews Floyd’s vivid adaptation of John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men which will be performed by Livermore Valley Opera this October.
September 14th at 7pm
Bothwell Arts Center
2466 8th Street, Livermore
Thomas Holliday has directed multiple productions of over fifty operas, operettas, and musicals in Europe and the United States. He has worked as a composer, conductor, opera educator, writer, and lecturer on operatic subjects.
Tempo (Jan 2014) credited this volume as “a heroic story of a truly remarkable individual, told in meticulous detail by an author whose sympathy and understanding derive from his own experience of his subject’s field…Floyd’s operatic themes run through the wider spectrum of humanity, in accessible musical language…A thoroughly enjoyable and informative book…stamped with resounding authority and undoubted affection.”
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Tickets-$10 at the door. Cash or Check only.
Limited copies of the book will be sold for $30 each