Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

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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• 11 meses

Survivor

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

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• 11 meses

Color-Caste-Denomination

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

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• 11 meses

Opening to Rooms

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

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• 11 meses

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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• 11 meses

Thinning Shade

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

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• 11 meses

Instructions for Angels

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

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• 11 meses

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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• 11 meses

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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• 11 meses

Jazzonia

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

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• 11 meses

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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• 11 meses

Brahma by Emerson

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

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• 12 meses

Danse Russe

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

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• 12 meses

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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• 1 año

Beneath the Poplars

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

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• 1 año

Eat At Joe's

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

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• 1 año

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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• 1 año

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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• 1 año

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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• 1 año