Here's delightfully wicked little poem written by Vachel Lindsay now made into a short song for Halloween.

The Parlando Project combines various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music in differing styles. We've done over 850 of these combinations, and you can hear any of them or read more about our encounter with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org

To make this I joined a short plaintive piece of new music with some lines excerpted from Sylvia Plath's poem. The full poem is longer and deals in greater detail with the state of awakening from sleep. To fit the music and as part of our series for Halloween and the Days of the Dead, I selected lines from Plath's poem that I heard as speaking of death and remembrance.

The Parlando Project combines various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music in a variety of styles. We've done over 850 of these pieces and you can hear any of them and read about our encounter with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org

Here's a poem turned into a little song for the more light-hearted side of Halloween. English Romantic-era poet Leigh Hunt tells us about fairies' mischief in the apple orchard.

The Parlando Project takes various words (mostly literary poetry) and combines them with original music in differing styles. We've done over 850 of these combinations, and you can hear any of them and read more about our encounters with the words at our archives and blog located at frankhudson.org

This is a poem about Autumn by Minnesota poet Phillip Dacey, who wrote many poems about marriage and family that gracefully combine clear surfaces and images with more complex undercurrents. 

The Parlando Project has done over 850 of these sorts of combinations, talking mostly literary poetry and performing it with original music in differing styles.  You can hear any of them by visiting our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org

I translated Paul Eluard's French poem about natural law into English for this new song.  

The Parlando Project combines various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music in differing styles. We've done over 850 of these combinations, and you can hear any of them or read about our encounter with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org

In our last piece I wrote about finding some old writing by my late wife who died decades ago. I was charmed by this poem, which was likely written while she was in college in the mid-1970s and studying writing with Howard Mohr and Phil Dacey. 

I performed this a spoken word piece to my own music, and yes, yes it was rewarding to inhabit words she wrote after all these years.

The Parlando Project takes words (usually literary poetry) and combines them with original music in differing styles. We've done over 850 of these combinations. Year can hear any of them, and read more about our encounters with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org

Here's a short poem I wrote about an old man going through storage boxes and finding things his late wife had packed away in the 1980s. 

The Parlando Project combines various words (usually literary poetry) with original music in differing styles.  We've done over 850 of these combinations, and you can hear any of them at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org