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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

Parlando featuring Frank Hudson and Dave Moore, poets and musicians

Poetry has been defined as "words that want to break into song." Musicians who make music seek to "say something". Parlando will put spoken words (often, but not always, poetry) and music (different kinds, limited only by the abilities of the performing participants) together. The resulting performances will be short, 2 to 10 minutes in length. The podcast will present them un-adorned. How much variety can we find in this combination? Listen to a few episodes and see. At least at first, the two

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02:06

The Sparrow

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2024/01/12

Here's song version of a Paul Lawrence Dunbar's poem. Dunbar is often reckoned the first successful Afro-American poet, and this poem, now song, shows how Dunbar wrote both of the Afro-American experience and universal themes within his poetry.

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02:34

To not be scared of death that doesn't understand us

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2024/01/04

This is a winter sonnet I wrote portraying my thoughts of the mortal illness of another poet Robert Okaji while I, an old man, am bike riding though some winter crows. For the first Parlando piece of this year, I declaimed this with a rock band behind my reading. For more than 700 other examples of various words (usually someone else's', usually literary poetry) combined in various ways with original music in several styles, visit our blog and archives at frankhudson.org.

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02:17

Storm Fear

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2023/12/31

Robert Frost included this rural winter poem in his first collection A Boy's Will. Concise it may be, and it works by tiny increments, but I think it's as harrowing as Dylan's "Hollis Brown" or Springsteen's Nebraska. So, I set it to original music and performed it. That's an example of what the Parlando Project does: we take other people's words, usually literary poetry, and set them to various kinds of original music. You can find over 700 examples of that at our blog and archives located at

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02:31

Since There Is No Escape

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2023/12/29

Sara Teasdale praises life while facing death in her poem I've now performed with music. For more than 700 other combinations of various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music in various styles, visit our blog and archives at frankhudson.org

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02:17

The Oxen

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2023/12/23

Here's a musical performance of my setting of Thomas Hardy's deft poem about Christmas miracles. For more about this and more than 700 other combinations of various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music in various styles visit our blog and archives at frankhudson.org

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02:40

Anna Akhmatova's "Love"

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2023/12/16

Russian poet Akhmatova's poem portrays a skeptical and experienced view of falling in love. I made a new English translation of this last summer, but its cold winter view of love convinced me to put off arranging a song-version of it until December. For more than 700 other combinations of various words (mostly literary poetry) with music in various styles, visit our blog and archives at frankhudson.org

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03:27

The Dark Cavalier

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2023/12/13

Margaret Widdemer was an early 20th century American poet and novelist, once somewhat popular, now mostly forgotten. "The Dark Cavalier" may be her most remembered work, and it's a dark gothic ballad sung by Death. Death is disturbing in their seductiveness in this piece You've been warned. For more than 700 other combinations of various words (mostly literary poetry) with various kinds of original music we create for this Project, visit our blog and archives at frankhudson.org

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02:32

Wild Grapes

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2023/12/01

A performance of a somber, gothic, ghost poem written by Australian poet Kenneth Slessor and performed with a haunting musical setting in our Parlando style. For more about Slessor, and for more than 700 other examples of various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music we compose and perform, visit our blog and archive at frankhudson.org

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05:29

Lambing (Night-Born Lambs)

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2023/11/26

Two pieces in one today: a spoken-word performance with music of Kevin FitzPatrick's poem "Lambing," and then a short instrumental response to the story of the poem "Night-Born Lambs." For more of what we do, combining other people's words (mostly literary poetry) with original music

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02:07

A Route of Evanescence

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2023/11/19

I combined two short Emily Dickinson poems to create this song or the strangeness, richness, and temporariness of life. To find out more about this, or to peruse the more than 700 other combinations of words (mostly literary poetry) with original music that are part of the Parlando Project, visit our blog and archives at frankhudson.org

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03:19

from Van or Twenty Years After

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2023/11/16

A short bit of Gertrude Stein presented without prejudice as word-music you might enjoy in this musical performance by The LYL Band. For more about this, and the Van this is an abstract portrait of, see our blog and archivers at frankhudson.org

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03:21

The Dumb Solidier

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2023/11/11

I took a strange poem by Robert Louis Stevenson and made it a stranger song as part of our observance of Armistice Day this year. Read about how my version slightly modified the original work and check out the more than 700 other combinations of various words with original music at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org

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02:15

Soldier from the wars returning

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2023/11/11

For Armistice Day, I sing this poem by A. E. Housman about returning WWI soldiers. For more than 700 other combinations of various words (mostly literary poetry) and original music we perform, visit our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org

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03:12

Free to Fall

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2023/11/03

An original song I made from a poem of mine about Autumn. Don't worry, the Parlando Project is still dedicated to using other people's words, and we'll return to that soon. For more than 700 examples of that sort of thing, various words (mostly literary poetry) combined with music we compose and perform, visit our blog and archives at frankhudson.org

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33:19

Halloween Parlando Project Mix 2023

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2023/10/28

A special Halloween extra episode: 10 songs in 33 minutes featuring ghosts, graveyards, curses, and creatures. The Parlando Project combines words (mostly literary poetry) with original music in various styles. Here's a list of the songs in this mix along with their lyrics' authors: A Poison Tree (Blake), The Listeners (De La Mare), All Souls Night (Flexner), Reynardine (Campbell), Unreal City (Eliot), Ghost Blues (Ball), The Little Ghost (Millay), The Shadow on the Stone (Hardy), Ghost House

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03:50

The Poet's Afterthought

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2023/10/15

I extracted this sweet yet regretful poem for music performance by the LYL Band from a longer and more archaic one that Longfellow wrote. For more about this and for more than 700 other combinations of various words (usually literary poetry) with original music visit our blog and archives at frankhudson.org

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01:57

Quiet Sanctuary

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2023/10/08

The LYL Band's musical performance of a short poem comparing small-town Midwestern wooden churches to an acoustic guitar. For more that 700 other combinations of various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music, visit our archives and blog at frankhudson.org

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03:16

Touch Lightly Nature's Sweet Guitar

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2023/09/27

Emily Dickinson's little poem mention my "home" instrument, so I just had to perform it. Besides the obligatory guitar I let a string trio enter into the middle of the piece, scored in my simple way. For more than 700 other combinations of various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music, visit our blog and archives at frankhudson.org

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04:36

The Terror of the Blank Page

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2023/09/20

I poetically expand on this commonly expressed feeling of writers during this live LYL Band performance. We usually use other people's words at the Parlando Project, and to see more than 700 other examples of that (mostly using literary poetry) combined with original music in various styles, visit our archives and blog at frankhudson.org

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01:44

Like trains of cars on tracks of plush

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2023/09/09

Emily Dickinson featured bees in many of her poems, but this short playful poem is possibly the most imaginative. I set it to music with acoustic guitar for today's audio piece. For more than 700 other combinations of various words (usually literary poetry) with original music visit our blog and archives at frankhudson.org

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