Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

She had concealed him in a deep dark cave...

Kenneth Patchen's love poem in the dark performed in front of a three-guitar eccentric rock band....

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There's No Reception in Possum Falls

Here's my musical performance of a poem from a video game. If that's not remarkable enough, it's...

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Jazzonia

Langston Hughes ode to Jazz from his first collection of poetry The Weary Blues  performed with a...

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The Things We Thought (That We Should Do)

Emily Dickinson's wistful speculation on the paths not taken performed with a folk-Jazz musical...

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Brahma by Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson was key in bringing elements of South Asian thought to the still forming U....

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Danse Russe

William Carlos Williams ambiguous poem about first-time parenthood performed. I had to choose as...

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Carl Sanburg's Band Concert

Sandburg tell us about a Midwestern summer night in his time. Can paint the picture well enough...

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Beneath the Poplars

Peruvian author César Vallejo wrote this Easter pastoral poem and I translated it from his...

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Eat At Joe's

This should be considered the first Parlando Project song, words by Keith Hill, music written by...

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A Dream Girl - Carl Sandburg's Courting Poem

A Carl Sandburg courting poem for his life partner Lillian Steichen, full of love, yearning, and...

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Love and a Question

Robert Frost's version of a weird tale he borrowed from William Butler Yeats is performed today...

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But These Things Also (Are Springs)

Edward Thomas, the honest and observant nature poet, finds signs of Spring in, well, bird poop....

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Like a White Stone

Others have set Anna Akhmatova's poetry to music effectively, but I decided to create and perform...

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Now that I am in Madrid and I can think

This is Frank O'Hara's love poem of separation -- separation from the beloved, separation of the...

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Winter Stars

Sara Teasdale's meditation on change and not-change in wartime performed. For more about this...

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Railroad Avenue

Here's an outwardly simple yet mysterious poem by Langston Hughes, published among other young...

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Uncle Sam Says

Another Waring Cuney lyric used on the Josh White record of the state of the Black American...

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Southern Exposure

Waring Cuney was one of the lesser-known young contributors to the 1926 Fire!! magazine. Later he...

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The Dying Bed

Resuming our encounter with the 1926 Harlem Renaissance publication Fire!!  I present my...

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The Phones in Our Hands (Are So Magical)

Here's another performance of my poem about old love. For more than 650 other combinations of...

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