Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

Stratocaster

I wrote this little ode to Leo Fender's swoopy electric guitar design on the occasion of it being...

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Let Us Be Midwives! (Bringing Forth New Life)

This is the 2nd in my series observing Atom Bomb Day, the anniversary of the bombing of...

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Palingenesis - can one recreate a rose from it's ashes?

This Longfellow poem I'll perform here with my original musical setting has a title that's beyond...

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From Cocoon forth a Butterfly - Emily Dickinson's summer

American poet Dickinson considered work on a summer's afternoon and I managed to make this song...

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Yellow Air (Heat)

I adapted and transformed a poem by John Gould Fletcher to make this original song about summer,...

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John Gould Fletcher's weird "America"

John Gould Fletcher is not much read today, but this 1916 prose poem seeks to meld modes of...

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Generations

A very short piece that hides a little Möbius strip paradox in the middle. For more about this or...

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Mountain Temple - a special Instrumental mix

Here's our last episode's original composition in a music-only mix that perhaps more clearly...

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My adaptation of Li Bai's "Staying the Night at a Mountain Temple"

Li Bai is one of most esteemed classical Chinese poets, and this is my adaptation./interpretation...

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The Dick & the Dame, or Dave Moore goes Pulp Noir

Dave Moore's 7-minute compression of hard-boiled detective fiction tropes. He says he was...

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Burying the Poet's Typewriter

My elegy for poet Kevin FitzPatrick performed live by The LYL Band. For more about this, or for...

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To Whom It May Concern (Carry Them Away)

This is our musical performance of a poem by Kevin FitzPatrick. Kevin wrote many fine poems about...

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Enjoying Flowers Walking Alone

Another of my adaptations of master classical Chinese poet Du Fu's work for performance in...

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Emily Dickinson's "Bloom"

Avant gardener Dickinson wants us to appreciate the effort it takes to flower, and so I perform...

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Rain on a Spring Night

I adapted this poem by Tang Dynasty Chinese poet Du Fu and performed it with my original music....

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The Tyger

English poet William Blake's mystical tiger is a highlight of his book Songs of Experience....

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"Cock Crow," Edward Thomas awakes to a spring morning

I gave this lesser-known Edward Thomas short poem a folk setting so that I, and now you, could...

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Willie Mays

A primitive LYL Band cassette tape recording from the middle 80's celebrates the great baseball...

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Oh Me! Oh Life! Walt Whitman's de profundis poem performed

A performance of Walt Whitman's de profundis poem. Published in 1867, Whitman's expression of the...

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Autumn Movement for National Poetry Month

Carl Sandburg didn't just do Chicago poems. An example: this lovely farmland poem performed with...

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