Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

The Oxen

Here's a musical performance of my setting of Thomas Hardy's deft poem about Christmas miracles....

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Anna Akhmatova's "Love"

Russian poet Akhmatova's poem portrays a skeptical and experienced view of falling in love. I...

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The Dark Cavalier

Margaret Widdemer was an early 20th century American poet and novelist, once somewhat popular,...

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Wild Grapes

A performance of a somber, gothic, ghost poem written by Australian poet Kenneth Slessor and...

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Lambing (Night-Born Lambs)

Two pieces in one today: a spoken-word performance with music of Kevin FitzPatrick's poem...

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A Route of Evanescence

I combined two short Emily Dickinson poems to create this song or the strangeness, richness, and...

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from Van or Twenty Years After

A short bit of Gertrude Stein presented without prejudice as word-music you might enjoy in this...

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The Dumb Solidier

I took a strange poem by Robert Louis Stevenson and made it a stranger song as part of our...

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Soldier from the wars returning

For Armistice Day, I sing this poem by A. E. Housman about returning WWI soldiers.  For more...

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Free to Fall

An original song I made from a poem of mine about Autumn. Don't worry, the Parlando Project is...

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Halloween Parlando Project Mix 2023

A special Halloween extra episode: 10 songs in 33 minutes featuring ghosts, graveyards, curses,...

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The Poet's Afterthought

I extracted this sweet yet regretful poem for music performance by the LYL Band from a longer and...

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Quiet Sanctuary

The LYL Band's musical performance of a short poem comparing small-town Midwestern wooden...

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Touch Lightly Nature's Sweet Guitar

Emily Dickinson's little poem mention my "home" instrument, so I just had to perform it.  Besides...

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The Terror of the Blank Page

I poetically expand on this commonly expressed feeling of writers during this live LYL Band...

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Like trains of cars on tracks of plush

Emily Dickinson featured bees in many of her poems, but this short playful poem is possibly the...

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Another Child ("To Any Reader")

I adapted the final poem in Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses as a song for...

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from "The Windy City"

Here's a section of a longer Carl Sandburg poem for American Labor Day. Physicists tell us that...

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I Was Blind with Hunger for Your Love (Summer Morn in New Hampshire)

Claude McKay's aching summer love poem performed as a love song. That's the kind of thing the...

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Come August, September

A song about a spring teenage romance interrupted by the summer vacation break in the schoolyear....

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