Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

The Only Ghost I Ever Saw

We start our Halloween Series this year with Emily Dickinson's sly and charming ghostly encounter...

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Yeats' Coat

William Butler Yeats short parable "A Coat"  about challenge and change performed with acoustic...

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Write Me Down

A poem, now a song, about the challenges, duties, connections, and consolations of life. As it...

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Leonard Cohen's Jukebox

The LYL Band performs a short passage from Leonard Cohen's The Favorite Game. For more about this...

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They Flee From Me

English Tudor-era poet Thomas Wyatt wrote this timeless poem of love lost in the early 16th...

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A Murmur in the Trees

American poet Emily Dickinson wrote this charmer, and I set it to music. Is she observing birds...

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Jimi Hendrix's Tears

We normally present short musical pieces, but today, in our annual observation of the day Jimi...

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Sonnet Suggested by Willy Vlautin

I wrote a sonnet based on a couple of things writer Vlautin said in an interview many years ago....

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Summer She Has No Lover

In a break from our usual practice of setting other people's poems,  here's a sonnet of summer...

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Working Girls, Happiness, and Muckers: Carl Sandburg writes about workers

Few poets wrote as often about working people and their lives as Carl Sandburg. Here then are...

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From Us She wandered now a Year

A performance of American poet Emily Dickinson's tightly compressed meditation on time...

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Arthur Hoehn, a song about an all-night classical music DJ

Today's National Radio Day, and radio hosts who spin records are part of that legacy. Here's a...

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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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