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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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01:58

Like the Touch of Rain

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2025/11/14

Edward Thomas' poem about the lost wildness of love made into a little song. The Parlando Project combines various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music in differing styles. We've done over 850 of these combinations, and you can hear any of them and read about our encounter with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org

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03:15

Old Soldier

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2025/11/10

Here's a piece for Armistice Day - Veteran's Day: a song made from a poem written by Irish poet Padraic Colum. The Parlando Project combines various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music in differing styles. We've done over 850 of these combinations, and you can hear any of them and read about our encounters with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org

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02:54

Ode to a 1953 Automobile Ad

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2025/11/07

A poem written by a teenager who grew up to be me. In my youth I was writing here about the images of Mid-Century America and the costs in hardly grown children. I just found my handwritten manuscript of this almost 60-old-poem while cleaning out old things and thought I'd present it here in this month of Armistice Day. The Parlando Project combines various words (usually other people's literary poetry) with original music in differing styles. We've done over 850 of these combinations, and you can

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03:43

Searoads

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2025/11/03

This is a contemporary poem written this autumn by American poet Henry Gould. The musicality and lush imagery of this short poem so captured me when I read it on Halloween night that rushed to do a song setting the next morning. Gould has been generous enough to allow me to share it with the Parlando Project listeners. The Parlando Project combines various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music in differing styles. We've done over 850 of these combinations over the years and you can hear

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02:03

The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2025/10/30

Here's delightfully wicked little poem written by Vachel Lindsay now made into a short song for Halloween. The Parlando Project combines various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music in differing styles. We've done over 850 of these combinations, and you can hear any of them or read more about our encounter with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org

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02:40

from "A Ghost's Leave Taking"

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2025/10/28

To make this I joined a short plaintive piece of new music with some lines excerpted from Sylvia Plath's poem. The full poem is longer and deals in greater detail with the state of awakening from sleep. To fit the music and as part of our series for Halloween and the Days of the Dead, I selected lines from Plath's poem that I heard as speaking of death and remembrance. The Parlando Project combines various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music in a variety of styles. We've done over 850

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02:23

Robbing an Orchard

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2025/10/27

Here's a poem turned into a little song for the more light-hearted side of Halloween. English Romantic-era poet Leigh Hunt tells us about fairies' mischief in the apple orchard. The Parlando Project takes various words (mostly literary poetry) and combines them with original music in differing styles. We've done over 850 of these combinations, and you can hear any of them and read more about our encounters with the words at our archives and blog located at frankhudson.org

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01:42

Frost Warnings

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2025/10/21

This is a poem about Autumn by Minnesota poet Phillip Dacey, who wrote many poems about marriage and family that gracefully combine clear surfaces and images with more complex undercurrents. The Parlando Project has done over 850 of these sorts of combinations, talking mostly literary poetry and performing it with original music in differing styles. You can hear any of them by visiting our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org

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03:05

Beautiful Justice

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2025/10/16

I translated Paul Eluard's French poem about natural law into English for this new song. The Parlando Project combines various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music in differing styles. We've done over 850 of these combinations, and you can hear any of them or read about our encounter with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org

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04:12

In Another Language

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2025/10/14

In our last piece I wrote about finding some old writing by my late wife who died decades ago. I was charmed by this poem, which was likely written while she was in college in the mid-1970s and studying writing with Howard Mohr and Phil Dacey. I performed this a spoken word piece to my own music, and yes, yes it was rewarding to inhabit words she wrote after all these years. The Parlando Project takes words (usually literary poetry) and combines them with original music in differing styles. We've

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02:08

Exhumantion

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2025/10/07

Here's a short poem I wrote about an old man going through storage boxes and finding things his late wife had packed away in the 1980s. The Parlando Project combines various words (usually literary poetry) with original music in differing styles. We've done over 850 of these combinations, and you can hear any of them at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org

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02:08

Portrait of the Artist

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2025/09/29

Humorist and poet Dorothy Parker presented this sly account that I suspect many other creatives will recognize. Well, I got around to setting it to music. The Parlando Project combines various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music in differing styles. We've done over 850 of these combinations, and you can hear any of them and read about our encounters with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org

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02:24

Tis whiter than an Indian Pipe

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2025/09/24

The Indian Pipe or Ghost Flower serves as the initial image in this strange late Emily Dickinson poem, In this musical performance using acoustic guitar, tanpura, and tabla drums I try to carry forward the elusive feeling of this work. The Parlando Project combines various words (mostly literary poetry) with music in differing styles. We've done over 850 of these combinations, and you can hear all of them and read accounts of our encounters about doing this at our blog and archivers located at

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05:14

I Should Turn to Be - Jimi Hendrix Memorial 2025

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2025/09/18

Each year, on the anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death, I play guitar to remember him. In the last decade this has led to a public piece each September, and this is this year's. The words for today's piece are taken from mermaid and siren poems written by Tennyson, Beckett, De la Mare, Symonds, Eliot, and Yeats. The music and guitar playing is mine. The Parlando Project combines various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music in differing styles. We've done over 850 of these combinations,

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02:49

Bavarian Gentians

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2025/09/14

This is one of D. H. Lawrence's most esteemed poems, yet I found it exists in two versions, and the one I perform today is the lesser-known of the pair. This version differs from the other by a more raw and disturbing utilization of the Persephone myth where the sexual violence in that story is less smoothed over. If you feel you might need a content warning for that, please consider this note one. The Parlando Project combines various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music in

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03:13

The Cherry Blossom Wand

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2025/09/08

English poet Anna Wickham wrote "To be sung" under the title of this, so I wrote music for it and did so. My appreciation for the poem about the transience of beautiful things deepened as I worked with it for performance. The Parlando Project combines various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music in differing styles. We've done almost 850 of these pieces, and you can hear any of them and read about our encounter with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org

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04:33

Sedition

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2025/09/01

No fair-minded person would say the thoughts in this piece's lyrics justify its title, but then that's part of the point it makes.* Edmund Vance Cooke wrote this in 1917, and after all these years I thought it might be appropriate to make a song out of it for today. The Parlando Project combines various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music in differing styles. This one has wailing electric guitars, but even I can't tell you what the next one will sound like. We've done almost 850 of

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02:05

The spider holds a Silver Ball

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2025/08/27

I sometimes like to take Emily Dickinson's 19th century poetry and recast it inside music that takes on the 1960s psychedelic approach. If severed from the drug associations, this style opens up paths to use sounds in unconventional ways which I think mirrors Dickinson's startlingly novel use of language and observation. This poem is a short tale of a productive spider and its mundane domestic fate, a metaphor perhaps for our artistic potential and responses. The Parlando Project takes various words

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18:18

I guest on the R. Mutt Podcast

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2025/08/20

Another Summer departure from our usual fare. In this satire I appear as guest on a podcast about Folk and Americana music to discuss some new protest songs decrying the current American administration's tampering with famous Universities. There's a special reveal in last minute of this piece. What is our usual thing? The Parlando Project normally combines various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music in differing styles. We've done over 800 of these combinations, and we'll do more

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04:08

Wild Peaches

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet ·

2025/08/06

I made this song using an extraordinarily musical sonnet by Elinor Wylie. I think her sonnet, and now this song, speaks about the desire to escape fate by fleeing to an Edenic place — but wait, deathly undercurrents are aleady there. The Parlando Project combines various words, mostly literary poetry, with original music in differing styles. We've done over 800 of these combinations, and you can hear any of them and read about our encounter with the words at our blog and archives located at

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