page_title: The Passion of Jonathan Wade
hierarchical_section_title: The Passion of Jonathan Wade
caption_attribution_description: English: Carlisle Floyd at the NEA Opera Honorees ceremony
context_page_description: The Passion of Jonathan Wade is a musical drama in three acts by the American composer Carlisle Floyd, who wrote both libretto and music. It tells the tragic story of a Union officer, sent to administer the city of Columbia, SC at the end of the Civil War, who marries the daughter of a local judge. They become outcasts, both to the embittered citizenry of Columbia and to the zealous New England carpetbaggers eager to profit from Reconstruction.
  The opera’s plot was invented by Floyd, based on an idea suggested by his wife. Dr. Joseph Glatthaar of the University of Houston served as historical consultant on the revised version.
  The music originally embraced tonality and traditional musical idioms such as the spiritual. The revision, by a much older composer with more eclectic musical tastes, features more dissonance and bitonality.
context_section_description: The Passion of Jonathan Wade is a musical drama in three acts by the American composer Carlisle Floyd, who wrote both libretto and music. It tells the tragic story of a Union officer, sent to administer the city of Columbia, SC at the end of the Civil War, who marries the daughter of a local judge. They become outcasts, both to the embittered citizenry of Columbia and to the zealous New England carpetbaggers eager to profit from Reconstruction. 
  The opera’s plot was invented by Floyd, based on an idea suggested by his wife. Dr. Joseph Glatthaar of the University of Houston served as historical consultant on the revised version. 
  The music originally embraced tonality and traditional musical idioms such as the spiritual. The revision, by a much older composer with more eclectic musical tastes, features more dissonance and bitonality.
caption: The composer in 2008
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