Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

Song for the Dark Virgin

Celebrating Valentine's Day and Black History Month with this lovely performance of Langston...

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Lenox Avenue: Midnight, an extension

As I considered performing this Langston Hughes poem for Black History Month, I was moved to add...

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The Weary Blues (demo version)

I can't do this piece from a poem by Langston Hughes justice tonight, but I feel right now that's...

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Midnight Nan at Leroy's

This subtle blues poem by Afro-American poet Langston Hughes performed for Black History Month....

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Sonny Rollins, The Bridge, 1959

Kicking off Black History Month early: an encomium to a great American artist's Jazz recording....

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Ethna's Wolves

A beautiful and harrowing poem by Ethna McKiernan performed with my music, completing our series...

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Oh, Maria from Ethna McKiernan's "Light Rolling Slowly Backwards"

Poet McKiernan spent her last years helping the homeless, dedicating her final collection to...

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Stones, a song adapted from a poem by Ethna McKiernan

Here's a moving song adapted from a poem in Irish-American poet Ethna McKiernan's "Light Moving...

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The Men in the Basement

Ethna McKiernan's arch poem may make you smile. For more about this and other combinations of...

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Velvet Shoes

American poet Elinor Wylie's gorgeous lyric about walking with someone in winter snow performed...

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The Orphans' New Year's Gifts

I perform my fresh translation of the first part of one of Arthur Rimbaud's earliest poems, one...

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Christmas in the Workhouse

This rude Edwardian ditty critiques holiday charity. For more about this, more polite and...

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Winter Solstice Consolations

A poetry performance written for this solstice and in memoriam to two poets/friends whose voices...

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I died for Beauty — but was scarce

This short and gothic Emily Dickinson poem is full of surprising details. For more about that and...

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Ethna's Dream

Instead of our usual Poetry's Greatest Hits selection, a short poem of mine performed with...

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Fragmentary Blues

We turn American poet Robert Frost's early short poem inside out to make it a rocking Blues...

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After Apple Picking

Here's Robert Frost's tale in harvest time performed, a piece appropriate for American...

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Lament (after Sheng-yu's Lament by Mei Yao-che'en)

I adapted this classical Chinese poem about grief and mourning into an English language song. For...

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God Made Mud

In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cats Cradle this moving summation of life is described as "The Last...

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Tiger's Got to Hunt

Another short song using words from Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle set to music and performed...

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