Here's a grisly folk-rock ballad with words by Robert E Howard and music freshly created this week for our Halloween series.
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Our Halloween series continues with a song performed by the LYL Band about dreams as ghosts set amid neolithic English standing stones
Our Halloween series continues with this song of ghosts lured by music using the words of English poet Walter de la Mare.
For more than 600 other examples of various words (mostly poetry) combined with original music, go to our archives at frankhudson.org
This Dave Moore written and sung piece performed by the LYL Band continues our Halloween series. A fall gardener confronts some ghosts in this one.
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As our Halloween series continues, a contrast from our last piece. Ghosts outside the window this time, and while the questions on either side of the glass in it are difficult to answer, the eerie mood of "All Souls' Night, 1917" has helped it outlast any other by its author Hortrense King Flexner.
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Sara Teasdale wrote a lot of complex love poems, but her Halloween adjacent fall poem that I sing today has a child's playfulness.
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We start our Halloween Series this year with Emily Dickinson's sly and charming ghostly encounter performed with 12-string guitar.
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William Butler Yeats short parable "A Coat" about challenge and change performed with acoustic guitar.
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A poem, now a song, about the challenges, duties, connections, and consolations of life. As it speaks of those things, it also says something about why poetry, why song.
The LYL Band performs a short passage from Leonard Cohen's The Favorite Game. For more about this and over 600 other performances of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.,org
English Tudor-era poet Thomas Wyatt wrote this timeless poem of love lost in the early 16th century, yet it can still seem immediate when read or performed today. Or so I hope, having set it to original music and performed it now.
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