John Keats charming little poem about the sounds of summer performed. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Emma Lazarus wrote more than the one famous poem of hers which became part of the Statue of Liberty. For example. this lovely sonnet about summer I sing here with a rock trio, cello, and contrabass. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
8th century Chinese poet Li Bai (Li Po) wrote a pair of poems in the voice of a wife of an traveling river merchant, Ezra Pound made one of them famous with his translation. Pound took considerable liberties with the original poem in the effort to make it vivid to his audience. Here's my transformation of the other one into English. I too took many liberties in modifying a 1922 English translation by Shigeyoshi Obata.
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A German poem by Anarchist Erich Mühsam written in 1909, now translated to English in 2020 to see if it applies today. For more about the story behind this and other combinations of various words with original music go to frankhudson.org
William Faulkner's and Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize speeches made claims about the value of their art. I perform here bits from both of them. For more about his and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
Gerard Manley Hopkins' gorgeous nature poem performed with a rock band and viola. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
Carl Sandburg's mysterious poem about things gloriously becoming left and gone performed. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
My attempt to sing a folk setting I composed of Longfellow's hymn to the American Experiment as the Civil War approached. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music go to frankhudson.org
Parts of Allen Ginsberg's assessment of his personal America written in 1956 performed with a rock band. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org.
Tender Ears Warning: one famous F-bomb
As we enter the celebration weekend of American Independence Day, a complex look at our country from a black immigrant written in 1921. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org