Falling Up: The Days and Nights of Carlisle Floyd: The Authorized Biography
A painstakingly detailed and heavily footnoted narrative...a comprehensive look at Floyd's uniquely American constructions...a vivid and intimate portrait...An absolute mustread.--Gary Galvan, Music Reference Services Quarterly, V. 16/2, pp. 124-125.A treasure of endlessly fascinating information...a poetry-based approach...it's like a steamy Southern novel peopled by friends, family and many of the last half-century's greatest singers, conductors, and opera administrators.--Laurence Vittes, Huffpost Arts & Culture, May 6, 2013.Thomas Holliday's book is...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..stamped with resounding authority and undoubted affection.Bret Johnson,TempoA painstakingly detailed and heavily footnoted narrative...a comprehensive look at Floyd's uniquely American constructions...a vivid and intimate portrait...An absolute mustread.--Gary Galvan, Music Reference Services Quarterly, V. 16/2, pp. 124-125.A treasure of endlessly fascinating information...a poetry-based approach...it's like a steamy Southern novel peopled by friends, family and many of the last half-century's greatest singers, conductors, and opera administrators.--Laurence Vittes, Huffpost Arts & Culture, May 6, 2013.Thomas Holliday's book is...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..stamped with resounding authority and undoubted affection.Bret Johnson,TempoTom Holliday's biography of Carlisle Floyd documents the distinguished career of one of our most beloved artists and teachers, with vivid descriptions of creative ideas transformed into the operas we know and love. Introducing a large cast of real characters central to the development of an American opera repertoire, Holliday captures the composer's poetic insight into the medium's essence. --Marc Scorca: President and CEO, Opera AmericaTom Holliday's astonishingly comprehensive biography of one of America s preeminent composers makes great reading because it marries the private and the professional, the trials and the triumphs of a long and fascinating career. --Hal Prince, Tony Award-winning producer and directorA 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. --Bret Johnson, TEMPO