Carlisle Floyd, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Carlisle Floyd

American composer

Date of Birth: 11-Jun-1926

Place of Birth: Latta, South Carolina, United States

Profession: composer, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Carlisle Floyd (born June 11, 1926) is an American opera composer.
The son of a Methodist minister, he has based many of his works on themes from the South.
His best known opera, Susannah (1955), is based on a story from the Biblical Apocrypha, transferred to contemporary, rural Tennessee, and is set in a Southern dialect.