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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet The Parlando Project
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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 readers will be a pair of Minnesota poets and musicians: Frank Hudson and Dave Moore who have performed as The LYL Band since the late 70s.
Influences include: Patti Smith, Frank Zappa, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart), William Blake, Alan Moore, Beat Poets (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, and others), The Fugs (Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg), Leo Kottke, Ken Nordine (Word Jazz), Bob Dylan, Steve Reich, and most of the Velvet Underground (Lou Reed, John Cale, Nico).
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The Doomed regard the Sunrise
Goth Emily Dickinson again, with a poem about what stirs the sharpness of our attention now turned into a song.
The Parlando Project combines words (usually literary poetry) with original music in various styles. You can find more than 750 of these combinations at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org -
William Carlos Williams' The Birds
Williams melds birdsong, rain, and dawn into one instantaneous thing. I turned his poem into a short musical performance.
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A little Madness in the Spring
American poet Emily Dickinson's enigmatic short Spring poem performed with new music as a Spring song.
For more than 750 other combinations of various words (usually literary poetry) with original music visit our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org -
Sexton!
Your presenter with an acoustic guitar galloping through Emily Dickinson's exhortation of Spring today.
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Pea Brush
Robert Frost tells a little tale of nature and gardening for May. Being that it's Frost, there's a sharp observation woven into the story about man and nature.
The Parlando Project combines various words (usually literary poetry) with original music in different styles. We've done over 750 of these combinations, and you can hear them and read more about this Project at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org -
John Sinclair writes 2 poems of Thelonious Monk
John Sinclair (who died during this National Poetry Month) did a lot of things in his life, generating so many stances and actions that I suspect no one can agree with all of it. But one thing he did throughout his life was write Jazz Poetry, and so for International Jazz Day this year I thought I'd seek out and perform a couple of his poems.
The Parlando Project combines various words (usually literary poetry) with original music in different styles. We've done over 750 of them, and you can hear them and read more about our experiences with this at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org