Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

Poetry has been defined as "words that want to break into song." Musicians who make music seek to "say something". Parlando will put spoken words (often, but not always, poetry) and music (different kinds, limited only by the abilities of the performing participants) together. The resulting performances will be short, 2 to 10 minutes in length. The podcast will present them un-adorned.How much variety can we find in this combination? Listen to a few episodes and see. At least at first, the two readers will be a pair of Minnesota poets and musicians: Frank Hudson and Dave Moore who have performed as The LYL Band since the late 70s.Influences include: Patti Smith, Frank Zappa, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart), William Blake, Alan Moore, Beat Poets (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, and others), The Fugs (Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg), Leo Kottke, Ken Nordine (Word Jazz), Bob Dylan, Steve Reich, and most of the Velvet Underg

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet is a arts podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 100 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

  The Naked Truth

  Aug 18, 20262 min

  Here's a short, early poem by the French Surrealist Paul Éluard, that I translated and adapted into English this month. I plan to write more about my translation and my impressions of reading some other early Éluard poems at the Parlando Project blog linked below. The Parlando Project takes various words (mostly literary poetry) and combines them with original music in differing styles. We've done over 900 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

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  She Visits Her Mother Who Doesn't Know Her

  Aug 13, 20265 min

  Here's a performance of another in a series of sonnets I've been writing over the past few years about a daughter's relationship with her mother with progressing Alzheimer's disease. The Parlando Project takes various words (mostly literary poetry) and combines them with original music in differing styles. We've done over 900 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

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  Love Addict Blues

  Aug 5, 20262 min

  This episode marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of the Parlando Project, but it's also the anniversary date of my late wife, Renée Robbins, death. I've chosen to tie those two things together with a musical setting and performance of a poem she wrote. Though written by a young woman, it's about a complicated attraction. The Parlando Project takes various words (mostly literary poetry) and combines them with original music in differing styles. We've done over 900 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

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  from Philip Freneau's "Reflections"

  Aug 2, 20265 min

  And now for something different. Last time the music was a love-lost remembrance nocturne made with two cellos accompanied by piano. Today's piece: a pair of howling electric guitars fronting a rock sextet. And the words for this? From Philip Freneau, the New Jersey resident known for a while as "the Poet of the American Revolution." But this poem of his was written long after the Revolution, 1815, and in it Freneau is warning against "embryo monarchs" who would sacrifice America's strength and renown to "prop a tottering throne." So obviously, and antique poem of no current relevance. The Parlando Project takes various words (mostly literary poetry) and combines them with original music in differing styles. We've done over 900 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

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  Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

  Nocturne of a Remembered Spring, part VI.

  Jul 29, 20262 min

  The years of this Project have led me to continued exploration of the poetry of the first part of the 20th Century. Recently I've come around to reading the poetry of the writer/critic Conrad Aiken, who was one of the expatriate Americans living in England and Europe, often acting as instigators of Modernism in this era. Today's musical piece with its musical title is the concluding section of a longer poem that served as the titular piece in a 1917 collection of his. Today's simple musical setting is for two cellos and a piano. The Parlando Project takes various words (mostly literary poetry) and combines them with original music in differing styles. We've done over 900 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

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