19th Century American "Fireside Poet" John Greenleaf Whittier wrote a Thanksgiving ode to pumpkin pie. I took the conclusion of his poem and made this little song out of it.

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

This is a loud electric Rock band performance of a piece memorializing the "Flame Wars" of the early days of the Internet when it was largely made up of Usenet groups, interest group forums, and email lists.

The Parlando Project combines various words (usually literary poetry, though not this time) and original music in differing styles. We've done over 850 of these combinations, and you can hear any of them and read about our encounter with the words and process of setting them to music at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org

Poet Langston Hughes  was an early and fervent exponent of combining the music of Jazz and the lyrical expression of Blues with literary poetry.  Here he draws us a scene with various characters in it, each of them relating to the experience of live Jazz in differing ways. 

I felt compelled to perform Hughes' poem with music that is related to the Jazz that is silently sounding in the imagined background of his page poem, and this is the result. 

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 and read our accounts of of our encounter with the poets and their words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org

Edward Thomas' poem about the lost wildness of love made into a little 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 and read about our encounter with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org

Here's a piece for Armistice Day - Veteran's Day: a song made from a poem written by Irish poet Padraic Colum.

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 and read about our encounters with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org

A poem written by a teenager who grew up to be me. In my youth I was writing here about the images of Mid-Century America and the costs in hardly grown children. I just found my handwritten manuscript of this almost 60-old-poem while cleaning out old things and thought I'd present it here in this month of Armistice Day.

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

This is a contemporary poem written this autumn by American poet Henry Gould. The musicality and lush imagery of this short poem so captured me when I read it on Halloween night that rushed to do a song setting the next morning. Gould has been generous enough to allow me to share it with the Parlando Project listeners.

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