Word: susannah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offered little in the way of challenge. There are Gian-Carlo Menotti's works, including The Medium, The Consul, The Saint of Bleecker Street, Help, Help, the Globolinks. Also Douglas Moore's The Ballad of Baby Doe, Robert Ward's The Crucible and Floyd's Susannah. But on the whole, American opera has been lacking as much in quality as in quantity...
Smaller Aims. Composer Floyd, now 43, emerged 15 years ago when he wrote Susannah, a retelling of the biblical story of Susannah "and the elders. Thereafter, he reached higher and sagged lower. Emily Brontë's Withering Heights (1958) and the Civil War Reconstruction story of The Passion of Jonathan Wade (1962) demanded largeness, even grandiloquence. Floyd's talent lay in revealing smaller situations, personal relationships. Since John Steinbeck's interests were in much the same area, Floyd's selection of Of Mice and Men is a perceptive return to the type of work that made...