Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

Love and a Question

Robert Frost's version of a weird tale he borrowed from William Butler Yeats is performed today...

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But These Things Also (Are Springs)

Edward Thomas, the honest and observant nature poet, finds signs of Spring in, well, bird poop....

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Like a White Stone

Others have set Anna Akhmatova's poetry to music effectively, but I decided to create and perform...

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Now that I am in Madrid and I can think

This is Frank O'Hara's love poem of separation -- separation from the beloved, separation of the...

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Winter Stars

Sara Teasdale's meditation on change and not-change in wartime performed. For more about this...

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Railroad Avenue

Here's an outwardly simple yet mysterious poem by Langston Hughes, published among other young...

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Uncle Sam Says

Another Waring Cuney lyric used on the Josh White record of the state of the Black American...

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Southern Exposure

Waring Cuney was one of the lesser-known young contributors to the 1926 Fire!! magazine. Later he...

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The Dying Bed

Resuming our encounter with the 1926 Harlem Renaissance publication Fire!!  I present my...

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The Phones in Our Hands (Are So Magical)

Here's another performance of my poem about old love. For more than 650 other combinations of...

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I'm Gonna Make Love to My Widow 'fore I'm Gone

A rambunctious country-blues ditty celebrating geezer-age love and desire. If you can't laugh on...

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A Southern Road

Harlem Renaissance figure Helene Johnson wrote this cold pastoral more than a decade before the...

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From the Dark Tower

This sonnet by Countee Cullen begins our observance of Black History Month this year. Within my...

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I Am Afraid to Own a Body

Emily Dickinson's questioning meditation on living in a body performed in a new musical setting....

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Yeats' Fairy Song

A beguiling song from Yeats' verse play The Land of Heart's Desire performed with acoustic guitar...

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The Birmingham Vulcan (for MLK)

This mythological folk song for Martin Luther King Day weaves a tale of a monumental iron statue...

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Don't Have To (Now You're Done)

Think of elegies as slow, somber tunes? Here's poet Dave Moore's rollicking but heart-felt elegy...

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The House of Hospitalities

Thomas Hardy's poem of wistful Christmas memories performed in this new song setting. For more...

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Now Winter Night Enlarge

Thomas Campion's Winter Solstice song performed. For more this and over 650 other combinations of...

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I felt my life with both my hands

For Emily Dickinson's Birthday, I'll sing a poem of hers that seems resonate to me now. That's...

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