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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: June, 2020
Jun 28, 2020

A musical performance of my loose translation of a classical Chinese poem by Wang Wei about human sadness. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org

Jun 25, 2020

Two sections of one of Emily Dickinson's strangest, yet most beguiling poem are sung here. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org

Jun 20, 2020

For Father's Day, I perform Edgar Guest's tribute to blue-collar fathers with a small group musical arrangement. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org

Jun 12, 2020

Carl Sandburg's vision of government starts with corruption and moves somewhere you might not expect. For more about this and other combinations of various word and original music visit frankhudson.org

Jun 11, 2020

Carl Sandburg's ghastly yet enigmatic Imagist poem performed. For more about this and other combination of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org

Jun 7, 2020

Two Dickinson poems are combined in this musical performance so that they illuminate each other, and maybe say something about our our country's present moment. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org

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