A new translation of Rilke's poem about harvest time, Fall and life-stages performed with acoustic guitar and cello. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
Shakespeare's famous autumnal poem about late life love, or is it? For more about this poem and other combinations of various words performed with original music visit frankhudson.org
Gerard Manley Hopkins' short lyric about unity in diversity performed with off-center music. For more about this and other combinations of original music with various words, goto frankhudson.org
Paul Laurence Dunbar's ode to Autumn. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music go to frankhudson.org
Extraordinarily rich nature imagery is used in this autumn poem performed with a "punk orchestral" musical setting. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Welsh poet Henry Vaughn wrote this meditation on struggle and suffering in the years following the British Civil War when his country was broken. Might we find any solace in it now performed with a Rock trio? For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
In Mystery Train Greil Marcus uses Floyd's story to illustrate how rock'n'roll developed from disparate sources. The LYL Band with Dave Moore performs this excerpt. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org
Too-often overlooked Modernist poet Mina Loy's 1922 ode to abstract sculpture, now performed with a rock band. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org
A mysterious noise might frighten the herd of watermelon grazing in this poem with music: stampede! For more about this and other combinations of various music visit frankhudson.org
A fresh translation of Mallarmé's ode to an ideal, unheard music performed. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
A request, a command, a begging cry, a lament, a report, a prayer, a need, a meditation, a love song. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
Emily Dickinson in an 1862 letter recounts a version of her life, performed here with piano and guitar. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
A short passage from Garrison Keillor's book Leaving Home recounts a child's memory of the end of summer. Performed here with original music. For more on this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
Guillaume Apollinaire's poem of being caught in the beginning of WWI performed with original music inspired by Iggy and The Stooges "1969." For more about this and other combinations of various words with music visit frankhudson.org
The next chapters in the story of the rape of Minerva Jones in Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org
A poem of cruelty and chilling horror from Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology telling of the rape and death of the "town poetess." For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
The character from Spoon River Anthology that most clearly invokes music has his epitaph performed with music. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
One of the hundreds of Midwestern characters' lives described in Edgar Lee Masters landmark "Spoon River Anthology". For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Sara Teasdale's poem ambiguously situated between beauty exceeding the self and the end of self. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
A song of loss. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Carl Sandburg portrayed a small Illinois town and garden in compressed Imagist form, and I performed it with a dig-the-slowness electronic score. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Carl Sandburg sounds tremendously contemporary in this one: "So many lies, killing so cheap..." For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
The closing poem from Carl Sandburg's Smoke and Steel with a full orchestral backing and dedicated to Renee Eve Robbins. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
In 1939 critic Philip Rahv said that the failure to successfully combine intellect and vitality endangered American Lit. Still true?
Here's my reading of a quote from a Rahv essay surrounded by an original orchestral score.
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An exchange between H.D. and William Carlos Williams on the what might be a Modernist writer's outlook. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org