Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

Halloween Parlando Project Mix 2023

A special Halloween extra episode: 10 songs in 33 minutes featuring ghosts, graveyards, curses,...

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The Poet's Afterthought

I extracted this sweet yet regretful poem for music performance by the LYL Band from a longer and...

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Quiet Sanctuary

The LYL Band's musical performance of a short poem comparing small-town Midwestern wooden...

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Touch Lightly Nature's Sweet Guitar

Emily Dickinson's little poem mention my "home" instrument, so I just had to perform it.  Besides...

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The Terror of the Blank Page

I poetically expand on this commonly expressed feeling of writers during this live LYL Band...

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Like trains of cars on tracks of plush

Emily Dickinson featured bees in many of her poems, but this short playful poem is possibly the...

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Another Child ("To Any Reader")

I adapted the final poem in Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses as a song for...

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from "The Windy City"

Here's a section of a longer Carl Sandburg poem for American Labor Day. Physicists tell us that...

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I Was Blind with Hunger for Your Love (Summer Morn in New Hampshire)

Claude McKay's aching summer love poem performed as a love song. That's the kind of thing the...

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Come August, September

A song about a spring teenage romance interrupted by the summer vacation break in the schoolyear....

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Langston Hughes Summer Night

Here's a poet writing the poetry of a long sleepless night, yet he spends as much time on the...

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Warm Summer Sun

Mark Twain carved out this heartrending lullaby as an epitaph for his dead daughter. I performed...

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LIghtly from Aldous Huxley's novel, Island

This passage from Huxley's last novel, Island,  was shared in a social media post this summer,...

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William Carlos Williams' Summer Song

I took William Carlos Williams poem from his early collection Al Que Quiere!  and made into a...

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Helen Hunt Jackson's July

Emily Dickinson's classmate Jackson also wrote poetry, and today we perform this summer poem of...

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Bed In Summer

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote this as a children's poem, but I'm not so sure that there aren't...

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All These Wild Geese Poems

Every nature poet writes from their own location for the nature they write about, and so here's a...

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Almost Independence Day (Frederick Douglass' Questions)

In 1852 the great American reformer Frederick Douglass gave a speech "What to the Slave Is the...

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Those cattle smaller than a Bee

Emily Dickinson is a great poet partly because her poetry has several different modes. Here she...

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Edward Thomas' "Song"

June 24th is the anniversary of British poet Edward Thomas' train trip that resulted in...

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