Not leaving winter yet? Sara Teasdale's short lyric meditation stays there, and I perform it today. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
For Leap Year Day, a Dave Moore song about mysterious cosmologies and the quantum states of love. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Paul Laurence Dunbar's famous poem about the Afro-American experience performed as a song for #BlackHistoryMonth. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
Paul Laurence Dunbar's most famous poem performed with an orchestral folk arrangement for Black History Month. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music go to frankhudson.org
Two episodes from Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln biography: Lincoln's birth and the death of his mother when Lincoln was nine are performed with a surprising introductory quote. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
An orchestral spoken-word piece about love and partnership that will perhaps suite this Valentine's Day. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music go to frankhudson.org
Marianne Moore's poem explores some implacable problems in American culture in her characteristic way: both plain spoken and knotty at the same time. Perhaps my musical performance can help illuminate it? For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
I created this from part of a talk by Angela Davis during this Black History Month, weaving a few sentences from that into this poem. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
The close of William Blake's story of the creation of the world in its fallen state performed with saxophone, piano, bass & drums. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
In this original ballad, a young woman accompanies a man who comes to her town seeking to revenge the killing of his brother. For more about this and other combinations of various words and various music visit frankhudson.org