I perform, from Walt Whitman's Specimen Days, this roving meditation on summer. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org
Emily Dickinson performed with sitar and electric guitars. I'm sure that's what she'd want for this song-debate between nature's seasons and her soul. For more about this and other combinations of various word and original music visit frankhudson.org
Alfred Tennyson's tiny poem about a small insect's transformation performed with original music by The LYL Band. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
A somewhat imperfect performance, but I have to share this song that begins near the end of a basketball game and moves on to statements about life, dying, and death like this one:
“You can make this up. It makes up itself. You can’t make it be more than anything else.”
This musical piece uses as its text Heidi Randen's short response to Louise Glück's poem "The Wild Iris" which speaks of suffering and its aftermath with possible rebirth. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.com
A break from our sometimes intense presentations of poetry with music, here's a bluesy little ditty about the worship of dead rock stars. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
A short piece about an aging farm woman with Alzheimer's performed by The LYL Band. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org
Langston Hughes answered Whitman's "I Hear America Singing" with his addition. I have in turn performed it with a folk acoustic guitar setting you can sing along to, adding my own short coda to Hughes' thoughts. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org
Walt Whitman's hymn to American work and workers performed. It's a good choice for Independence Day - July 4th, or any other day. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org