Hi everyone and welcome to the Deep Energy Podcast. This is a podcast of New Age and Ambient Electronic music. You...
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winter podcasts
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
Today I’m presenting a piece that is extraordinarily well-known, by an American poet whose work is still read and...
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Here’s another winter poem by Robert Frost to put to our uses. Writing about my last piece here, Frost’s “Stopping by...
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Stopping by a Woods with Bad Cellphone Service
For some time, I’ve disliked the way the idea of “generations” has been treated by the culture at large. Not the...
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Tomorrow is Christmas, a holiday that in the English-speaking world owes a lot to the English Victorians in...
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Once more I’m going with a fresh translation for today’s words. And once more, they’re from the French, as I take on...
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The Parlando Project combines various words (usually poetry) with music as varied as I can make it. When I planned...
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Let us return to that April epic of high-church Modernism. T. S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland.” Long time listeners will...
02:47
I like to mix up our musical encounters with poetry here, using both well-known and lesser-known poems. Here’s one...
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The Grasshopper and the Cricket
John Keats charming little poem about the sounds of summer performed. For more about this and other combinations of...
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Today’s words are from William Carlos Williams. Unlike our last episode, I wouldn’t call this a love poem. Oh, I...
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The Snow is Deep on the Ground
This is Kenneth Patchen's winter poem for troubled lovers, which I perform here with with drums, bass, and piano. For...
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I decided on my own that Yeats’ piece in the last episode was about February, but I have some other pieces that say,...
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We’ve already met Irish poet William Butler Yeats with a brief poem earlier this month. Now his words return with a...
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Today's episode is a short, yet puzzling piece with words by William Butler Yeats: “On Being Asked for a War Poem.”...
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Eric Burdon and the Animals had a considerable run of hit singles in the 1960s. To the degree that we remember that...
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Here in the upper Midwest we are now in the middle of winter, and so are in a various ambivalence about it. Part of...
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As promised, here’s my “bird in the house” piece presented as a companion to Dave Moore’s episode from yesterday. I...
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You may have noticed that episode frequency has fallen off a bit this month. Well besides the usual struggle of an...
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This is the most difficult set of words to read coherently that I’ve presented so far in the Parlando Project. Robert...
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