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Carlisle Floyd, Rhiannon Giddens & Rhiannon Giddens:
🎵 Trees on the Mountains

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Houston Grand Opera  Presents Carlisle Floyd’s Of Mice and Men - Preview A spokesperson says--- “...Based on John Steinbeck’s 1937 novella of the same name, the acclaimed 1970 opera, composed by Floyd to his own libretto, will b

John Steinbeck's classic-- set in the time of the Great Depression-- now an opera. Click the link to read the preview in the Houston edition of Picture This Post --

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Carlisle Floyd (1926-2021), American composer

Died #otd Carlisle Floyd (1926-2021), American composer, 4 years ago today #CarlisleFloyd life story...

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I wonder if I’d get lonesome fer the valley though
Fer the sound of crickets
and the smell of pine straw
Fer soft little rabbits
and bloomin’ things
An’ the mountains turnin’ gold in the fall

But I could always come back
If I got homesick fer the valley
So I’ll leave it someday
and see fer […]

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I wonder what it’s like out there
Out there way beyond them mountains
Where the folks talk nice an’ the folks dress nice
Like ya see in the mail order catalogs

I aim to leave this valley some day
An’ find out for myself:
To see all them tall buildin’s and all the street lights
An’ to be one […]

Here is a playlist of music that Mathias Mönius and I performed together!

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