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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

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. Hear the sound and sense convey other people's stories here at Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet 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, Jack Kerouac (and many other “beat poets”), Frank Zappa, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart), William Blake, Alan Moore, 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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Now displaying: March, 2019
Mar 28, 2019

Robert Frost's anthem to wind, breath, poetry, and music performed with electric guitar and and band. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org

Mar 25, 2019

Robert Frost's spring poem with just a little literary snow in it, performed with electric guitar and keyboards. For more about this and other combinations of various words with various original music, visit frankhudson.org

Mar 18, 2019

Sara Teasdale's anti-war spring poem of indifferent beauty presented with acoustic guitar and strings. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org

Mar 16, 2019

For St. Patrick's Day we present Yeats poem of homesickness and peace that helped re-imagine Ireland. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org

Mar 14, 2019

I perform Ezra Pound's account of how he wrote this famous early Modernist English poem and then the poem itself accompanied by original music. For more about this and other combinations of various words with music, visit frankhudson.org

Mar 10, 2019

This remarkable poem about women and men from 1922 works both as a love poem and as political analysis. For more about it's author Genevieve Taggard and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org

Mar 8, 2019

Wallace Stevens' poem takes a cold look at winter accompanied by original music with bass, acoustic guitar and piano. For more about his and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org

Mar 5, 2019

A 1915 poem by Dada/Surrealist artist Man Ray recast as if it could have been performed by 12-string blues revivalist Dave Ray of Koerner Ray and Glover. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org

Mar 3, 2019

W. B. Yeats Romantic and romantic poem about the offering of love. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org

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