Best Parlando featuring Frank Hudson Podcasts (2022)

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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

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Rain on a Spring Night 1:26

2h ago1:26

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I adapted this poem by Tang Dynasty Chinese poet Du Fu and performed it with my original music. For more about this and more than 600 other combinations of various words (mostly poetry) with original music, visit frankhudson.orgBy Frank Hudson for the Parlando Project

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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

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The Tyger 5:39

1h ago5:39

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English poet William Blake's mystical tiger is a highlight of his book Songs of Experience. Here's a solo acoustic guitar and vocal performance using my own musical setting from the last Year of the Tiger (2010) for the current one.By Frank Hudson for the Parlando Project

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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

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"Cock Crow," Edward Thomas awakes to a spring morning 2:40

8d ago2:40

2:40

I gave this lesser-known Edward Thomas short poem a folk setting so that I, and now you, could hear it. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.orgBy Frank Hudson for the Parlando Project

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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

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Willie Mays 4:42

11d ago4:42

4:42

A primitive LYL Band cassette tape recording from the middle 80's celebrates the great baseball player. For more about this and other combinations of various words (mostly poetry) with original music visit frankhudson.orgBy Dave Moore for the Parlando Project

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Oh Me! Oh Life! Walt Whitman's de profundis poem performed 4:59

16d ago4:59

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A performance of Walt Whitman's de profundis poem. Published in 1867, Whitman's expression of the questions of despair and the answer he finds still resonate today. For more about this and other Parlando combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.orgBy Frank Hudson for the Parlando Project

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Autumn Movement for National Poetry Month 4:27

20d ago4:27

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Carl Sandburg didn't just do Chicago poems. An example: this lovely farmland poem performed with my best approximations of Jazz in the mode of Bill Frisell for today's International Jazz Day. This piece concludes our daily re-releases this April of some of my favorite early Parlando Project performances. The Project combines various words (mostly p…

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The Trees are Down for National Poetry Month 4:52

21d ago4:52

4:52

Charlotte Mew's poetry has some unusual qualities, like in this poem which starts out like she's a more reserved Frank O'Hara and then ends more like Rilke. It's also the only Arbor Day poem you'll hear today that has a dead rat in it. Mew is not the only one who's unusual--our listeners are too. The Parlando Project has done over 600 combinations …

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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

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See Emily (Dickinson) Play - I recast her poem "May-Flower" for National Poetry Month 4:10

22d ago4:10

4:10

I sometimes see a psychedelic aspect to Dickinson's poetry, and this performance manifests that as her spring poem is re-woven into something that you'd hear on a Sixties vinyl LP. Surely something different for Poem in your Pocket Day today. For more about this, or more Parlando, visit frankhudson.org. There are over 600 other examples of how we c…

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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

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Fenton Johnson's "Tired" for National Poetry Month 2:25

23d ago2:25

2:25

Warning: this 1919 poem by too-little-known Chicago Afro-American poet is disturbing. "Tired" was controversial from the start for it's bleak view, but there's internal evidence that Johnson was intending to present a "persona poem" portraying only one outlook on America's situation.

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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

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Back Yard by Carl Sandburg 2:51

24d ago2:51

2:51

From his landmark 1916 Chicago Poems, here's Sandburg writing about summer nights and the immigrant experience then. I perform it in a way that I hope comes unstuck and drifts in time. The Parlando Project has done over 600 of these things: combinations of various words and original music. You can find this, and others like and unlike it, in our ar…

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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

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Emily Dickinson's "Ample make this Bed" for National Poetry Month 2:40

25d ago2:40

2:40

Here's a performance of Dickinson's gothic aubade re-released as part of our National Poetry Moth celebration this April. The Parlando Project has been combining words (mostly poetry) with original music (as varied as we can make it) for six years now. and has over 600 of the results available in our archives at our blog https://frankhudson.org…

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H.D.'s "The Pool" for National Poetry Month 1:35

26d ago1:35

1:35

In 1911 Hilda Doolittle visited her old school flame Ezra Pound in London and came out “HD, imagiste.” Branding! H.D. never liked her last name for literary reasons anyway. And her short mysterious early poems were pioneering works of what became known as Imagism. Here's my performance and original music setting of one of her revolutionary early wo…

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Night, and I Traveling for National Poetry Month 1:52

27d ago1:52

1:52

Here's a performance of an overlooked masterpiece of early Imagist poetry written by Irish poet Joseph Campbell (Seosamh MacCathmhaoil) in 1909. In just a few well-written words he portrays a situation from rural Irish life. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org…

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Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day 1:40

28d ago1:40

1:40

Celebrating Shakespeare's birthday and National Poetry Month with this performance with original music. The Parlando Project has lot like (and unlike this) in our archives, more than 600 pieces combining words (mostly poetry) with original music. To find those, or read more about this and the other pieces go to frankhudson.org…

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Zalka Peetruza (Who Was Christened Lucy Jane) for National Poetry Month 2:21

29d ago2:21

2:21

Black Ohioan Raymond G. Dandridge was a little-known link between Paul Dunbar and Langston Hughes, and this short poem about an alienated dancer who has taken on an exotic persona might be seen as a "danced near-nude" pair with Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask." We have over 600 other performances of various words (mostly poetry) combined with original m…

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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

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Her Lips are Copper Wire for National Poetry Month 3:00

1M ago3:00

3:00

Our performance of Jean Toomer's incandescent Afro-American love poem is re-released today as part of our celebration of National Poetry Month. Wand more Parlando? Our archives have over 600 other combinations of various words with original music available at our blog: frankhudson.orgBy Frank Hudson for the Parlando Project

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Crepuscule (I Will Wade Out) for National Poetry Month 3:10

1M ago3:10

3:10

e. e. cummings rapturous poem is performed with original acoustic music in this re-released version as part of celebration of National Poetry Month.By Frank Hudson for the Parlando Project

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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

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Jade Flower Palace for National Poetry Month 4:15

1M ago4:15

4:15

My own extended English translation of Du Fu's poem performed by The LYL Band. Du Fu (also spelled Tu Fu) is one the masters of classical Chinese poetry, and this is one my favorites of his works re-released now as part of our celebration of National Poetry Month. More about this or more Parlando? Go to frankhudson.org…

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Easter Monday (In Memoriam E. T.) for National Poetry Month 3:53

1M ago3:53

3:53

Eleanor Farjeon and Robert Frost both wrote elegies for their mutual friend and poet Edward Thomas killed on Easter Monday during WWI. Which one is the more effective poem? The one I perform today by Farjeon. Since it's National Poetry Month you may be interested in more about Thomas and this poem, or in the more than 600 other performances with we…

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Gone, Gone Again for National Poetry Month 4:05

1M ago4:05

4:05

British poet Edward Thomas' meditation on war's absences performed with an original setting using acoustic guitar and orchestra instruments. This poem sometimes goes by the title "The Blenheim Oranges" We're re-releasing performances like this from this Project first couple of years to celebrate National Poetry Month. If you like this, there are mo…

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Adlestrop for National Poetry Month 2:57

1M ago2:57

2:57

You'll sometimes find Edward Thomas' filed under "War Poets," but his best-known poem "Adlestrop" is an unique peace poem written a few days before war broke out in Europe. In it, "nothing" happens -- the sweetest nothing. This re-release of our performance of the poem with a rock band is part of our celebration of National Poetry Month 2022.…

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Yeats' "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" for National Poetry Month 2:09

1M ago2:09

2:09

We continue our celebration of National Poetry Month with the re-release of this beautiful short love poem by William Butler Yeats, performed with our original music. The Parlando Project has over 600 other examples of this, available in our archives at frankhudson.orgBy Frank Hudson for the Parlando Project

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Rosemary for National Poetry Month 3:11

1M ago3:11

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Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem of love and respect lost performed to original music by an acoustic band. For more about this and other combinations of various words (mostly poetry) with original music go to frankhudson.orgBy Frank Hudson for the Parlando Project

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Soul Selector Blues for National Poetry Month 3:31

1M ago3:31

3:31

Just suppose that back in the 1920s someone wanted to record a Blues song based on Emily Dickinson's "A Soul selects her own Society," and so they waxed a 78 rpm platter. Well, it might sound a little like this. And if you're unusual enough to listen to that, you might enjoy some of the more than 600 other performances we have in our archives at fr…

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We Grow Accustomed to the Dark for National Poetry Month 3:55

1M ago3:55

3:55

Emily Dickinson's poem is performed with our original orchestral setting as we continue or celebration of National Poetry Month by re-releasing some of our favorite performances from the early years of the Parlando Project. Want to hear more combinations of various words (mostly poetry) with original music? Visit our archives at frankhudson.org…

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The Death of Guillaume Apollinaire for National Poetry Month 2:42

1M ago2:42

2:42

I translated Dada founder Tristan Tzara's surprisingly moving elegy to the important early French Modernist poet and artist Apollinaire. I then created/performed this musical setting. To hear more than 600 other combinations of various words with original music, go to frankhudson.orgBy Frank Hudson for the Parlando Project

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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

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On the Troop Ship to Gallipoli for National Poetry Month 3:20

1M ago3:20

3:20

My Modernist revision of one of the last poems of noted WWI War Poet Rupert Brooke performed with my musical setting. For more about this and more than 600 other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.orgBy Frank Hudson for the Parlando Project

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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

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Sweet Thames from Eliot's The Waste Land for National Poetry Month 3:25

1M ago3:25

3:25

Commemorating our previous NPM series that serially performed the entire Modernist landmark in a variety of musical contexts, here's a re-release for NPM 2022 of the opening part of "The Fire Sermon." The entire "The Waste Land" series is available in our archives at frankhudson.org, along with over 600 other audio performances.…

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Stopping by a Woods with Bad Cellphone Service for National Poetry Month 3:37

1M ago3:37

3:37

The LYL Band tweaks Frost with their performance of this parody. More about this and more than 600 other examples of various words mixed with original music at frankhudson.orgBy Frank Hudson for the Parlando Project

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Poetry by Marianne Moore for National Poetry Month 2:41

1M ago2:41

2:41

Here's American poetry's National Anthem and its reader's Bill of Rights performed by the Lake Street Writer's Group. Re-released to celebrate National Poetry Month and the opening day of the baseball season.

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Letters to Dead Imagists and A Pact for National Poetry Month 3:36

2M ago3:36

3:36

Poets Carl Sandburg and Ezra Pound wrote these two poems about their poet influences. Hey, that's what the Parlando Project is doing this National Poetry Month, and has been doing all year for 6 years: sharing via performance our musical impressions of poets! You can find more than 600 of those in our archives at frankhudson.org…

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Anne Spencer's Dunbar for National Poetry Month 2:57

2M ago2:57

2:57

When John Keats died a yet unheralded, English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley linked him with another died-to-soon poet Thomas Chatterton. A century later Black poet Anne Spencer extended that tradition by adding the name of a fellow Afro-American, Paul Laurence Dunbar, to the chain of hallowed poets. This is the latest in our re-release of som…

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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

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Zeppelins for National Poetry Month 2022 3:43

2M ago3:43

3:43

Advisory: this poem is a disturbing account of one of the first aerial bombardments of a city and resulting civilian deaths. It's also disturbing because while it was written in 1915 by a pioneering Modernist English poet F. S. Flint, it remains timely.By Frank Hudson for the Parlando Project

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The Aim Was Song for National Poetry Month 2022 2:50

2M ago2:50

2:50

Robert Frost's 101-year-old poem get treated to some ripping electric guitar impersonating spring winds in this performance. We're celebrating National Poetry Month this April with selected performances from our archives. There's 600 more like (and different from) this at frankhudson.orgBy Frank Hudson for the Parlando Project

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The Red Wheelbarrow for National Poetry Month 2022 1:28

2M ago1:28

1:28

A performance of William Carlos Williams short poem set to original music as we continue or observance of National Poetry Month with classic performances from the Parlando Project archives. More than 600 pieces combining various words with original music are at frankhudson.orgBy Frank Hudson for the Parlando Project

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Stars Songs Faces for National Poetry Month 2022 3:56

2M ago3:56

3:56

The Parlando Project kicks off it's celebration of #NationalPoetryMonth with a re-release of its first public piece: our performance of a Carl Sandburg poem recorded the day after David Bowie died in 2016. More about the Parlando Project at frankhudson.orgBy Frank Hudson for the Parlando Project

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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

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The Wall Around Heaven (for Larry Williams) 5:58

2M ago5:58

5:58

Dave Moore's magnificent poetic satire performed by the author. For more about this and other combinations of various words combined with original music go to frankhudson.orgBy Dave Moore for the Parlando Project

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Coyotes 4:45

2M ago4:45

4:45

Our memorial celebration of poet Kevin FitzPatrick continues with this farm-funk story performance, about spring, sheep, coyotes, and an electric fence. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org

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Bicycle Spring 2:27

2M ago2:27

2:27

Welcoming spring with another LYL Band performance in our series celebrating poet Kevin FitzPatrick. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org

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Blackberries 4:06

2M ago4:06

4:06

Kevin FitzPatrick's poem about how he came to reassess Seamus Heaney's poem performed. For more about this, and other combinations of various words and original music, go to frankhudson.org

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Sonnet to Beauty 2:40

2M ago2:40

2:40

For International Women's Day, I perform a poem by an international woman: Lola Ridge. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.orgBy Frank Hudson for the Parlando Project

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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

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Babi Yar - Testament 6:41

3M ago6:41

6:41

Rock music combines with spoken word as I present sections of two poems, one by a Russian and the other by a Ukrainian. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music go to frankhudson.org

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Unrequited March 2:02

3M ago2:02

2:02

I perform my own sonnet about winter giving way to spring. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, go to frankhudson.orgBy Frank Hudson for the Parlando Project

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Langston Hughes' Poem 3:08

3M ago3:08

3:08

I perform short memorial poem from Langston Hughes' first book The Weary Blues. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.orgBy Frank Hudson for the Parlando Project

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Song for the Dark Virgin 2:53

3M ago2:53

2:53

Celebrating Valentine's Day and Black History Month with this lovely performance of Langston Hughes' love poem. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, go to frankhudson.orgBy Frank Hudson for the Parlando Project

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Lenox Avenue: Midnight, an extension 2:14

3M ago2:14

2:14

As I considered performing this Langston Hughes poem for Black History Month, I was moved to add my own couplet at the end. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.orgBy Frank Hudson for the Parlando Project

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The Weary Blues (demo version) 4:25

4M ago4:25

4:25

I can't do this piece from a poem by Langston Hughes justice tonight, but I feel right now that's of little matter in this time and place. So, just a bare demo: a beat and guitar. After I finished laying the song I made of Hughes' poem down, I carried on riffing on a changed up version of another song for some time.…

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Midnight Nan at Leroy's 2:09

4M ago2:09

2:09

This subtle blues poem by Afro-American poet Langston Hughes performed for Black History Month. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.orgBy Frank Hudson for the Parlando Project

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Sonny Rollins, The Bridge, 1959 4:19

4M ago4:19

4:19

Kicking off Black History Month early: an encomium to a great American artist's Jazz recording. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.orgBy Frank Hudson for the Parlando Project

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Ethna's Wolves 3:03

4M ago3:03

3:03

A beautiful and harrowing poem by Ethna McKiernan performed with my music, completing our series of musical presentations of her work this winter. The previous 3 episodes here will show other aspects of why I encourage you to read more of McKiernan, perhaps in her final collection, which can be found at this link: https://www.salmonpoetry.com/detai…

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