Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

Come August, September

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

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Langston Hughes Summer Night

Here's a poet writing the poetry of a long sleepless night, yet he spends as much time on the...

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Warm Summer Sun

Mark Twain carved out this heartrending lullaby as an epitaph for his dead daughter. I performed...

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LIghtly from Aldous Huxley's novel, Island

This passage from Huxley's last novel, Island,  was shared in a social media post this summer,...

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William Carlos Williams' Summer Song

I took William Carlos Williams poem from his early collection Al Que Quiere!  and made into a...

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Helen Hunt Jackson's July

Emily Dickinson's classmate Jackson also wrote poetry, and today we perform this summer poem of...

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Bed In Summer

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote this as a children's poem, but I'm not so sure that there aren't...

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All These Wild Geese Poems

Every nature poet writes from their own location for the nature they write about, and so here's a...

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Almost Independence Day (Frederick Douglass' Questions)

In 1852 the great American reformer Frederick Douglass gave a speech "What to the Slave Is the...

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Those cattle smaller than a Bee

Emily Dickinson is a great poet partly because her poetry has several different modes. Here she...

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Edward Thomas' "Song"

June 24th is the anniversary of British poet Edward Thomas' train trip that resulted in...

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Thomas Hardy's Transformations

What happens after death? English poet Thomas Hardy had one idea and created this poem of atomic...

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Emily Dickinson's Mushroom

Emily the Botany Nerd wrote this of mushrooms and I figured out how to sing it, That's what this...

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Charles Olson's "These Days"

I'm in Asheville NC this weekend and yet the Black Mountain College center is closed....

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Survivor

Poet Kevin FitzPatrick helped his WWII veteran father write his memoir of the father's...

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Color-Caste-Denomination

With her very first line, Emily Dickinson gets right to the "minuter intuitions" that too often...

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Opening to Rooms

The opening portion of the final section, "Rooms," of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons performed...

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Branched Song (2023 Remaster)

As part of my occasional series this spring looking back at the roots of the Parlando Project...

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Thinning Shade

I still hear poet Kevin FitzPatrick's voice in my ear. That deep sustaining sound leads me to...

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Instructions for Angels

Kenneth Patchen's touching poem performed as a song with acoustic guitar. For more about this and...

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