Archaic Torso of Apollo

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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

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How Do I Love Thee2:29

36m ago2:29

2:29

A sonnet that launched a thousand valentines, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's famous Victorian love poem. For more about this and other combination of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org

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Her Lips are Copper Wire3:00

4h ago3:00

3:00

Jean Toomer's striking love poem performed with original music. For more about this and 300 other combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org #blackhistorymonth #valentine

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To His Coy Mistress2:35

4d ago2:35

2:35

Sleep with me 'cause you're going to be a corpse soon! How romantic is that valentine? Andrew Marvell's famous poem starts out satire and ends up sincere. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org

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No Common Ground2:49

5d ago2:49

2:49

Is this the LYL Band's State of the Union speech response? For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, go to frankhudson.org

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Five Kinds of Truth3:33

8d ago3:33

3:33

A Dave Moore song about belief and truth adopted from a part of the "Nite Owl" and "Before Watchman" comics series. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org

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Willie Murphy (Is Always Playing on the West Bank)5:25

12d ago5:25

5:25

A tribute to Minnesota musician Willie Murphy and the scene he helped foster on West Bank side of the Mississippi in Minneapolis. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org

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The Trees are Down4:52

15d ago4:52

4:52

Early 20th century poet Charlotte Mew wrote this strikingly modern sounding meditation on men out of balance with nature featuring majestic trees and a dead rat. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org

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China Mouth, A Changeling3:16

18d ago3:16

3:16

Fantasy is after all, just metaphor applied to a different layer of art. Another song using a changeling to stand for alienation. For more about this and other combination of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org

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The Changeling9:15

21d ago9:15

9:15

Charlotte Mew cast a chilling fairy story with acute psychological insight. It's like Peter Pan meets Tam Lin! For more about his and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org

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There Came a Lion into the Capitol4:15

24d ago4:15

4:15

A fantastic and apocalyptic tale from the early 20th century with a psychedelic pop accompaniment. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org

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Red Rooster2:24

28d ago2:24

2:24

This Imagist poem about a rooster has a mysterious origin story concerning its author Hilda Conkling. For more about that and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org

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To the Roaring Wind2:19

1M ago2:19

2:19

My performance of the final poem in Wallace Stevens' "Harmonium" collection is dedicated to David Shove. For more about this and other combination of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org

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Gacela of the Dark Death5:19

1M ago5:19

5:19

Federico García Lorca's poem plays with death and youth mixing beauty and dark humor. For more about his and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org

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Self-Pity2:53

1M ago2:53

2:53

D. H. Lawrence's epigrammatic poem on nature's view of self-pity performed to original music with drums. For more about this and other combinations of various words with music go to frankhudson.org

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Archaic Torso of Apollo3:36

1M ago3:36

3:36

Rilke looked at a damaged Greek status of the god of poetry and saw something of himself, his art, and us in it. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org

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The Darkling Thrush4:01

1M ago4:01

4:01

Written for a wintry New Year's eve, Thomas Hardy gives us a realist's version of hope. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org

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Longfellow Goes Beat8:11

2M ago8:11

8:11

Longfellow's "Snow-Flakes" and part of his "Psalm of Life" read with jazz backing, Beat Generation style. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org

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I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (Christmas Bells)3:42

2M ago3:42

3:42

You may have heard this Christmas song casually before, but Longfellow's poem turned carol has a pointed message written during the American Civil War. For more about this, and a link to the chords and tuning used, visit frankhudson.org

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Father from the North3:07

2M ago3:07

3:07

My song for a dark solstice day that tells a frightening story. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org

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Spectra poems Opus 1312:55

2M ago2:55

2:55

Arthur Davison Ficke took part in a 1916 hoax meant to mock Modernist poetry. But how bad did the poetry turn out to be? Here's his Spectrist poem written as "Anne Knish."

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The Book of Lu T'ang Chu2:44

2M ago2:44

2:44

American poet Arthur Davidson Ficke wrote this meditation comparing the creation of poetry in our time to the classical Chinese era. For more about this an other combinations of various word with original music, visit frankhudson.org

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I Am the Clod that has Taken Wing2:09

2M ago2:09

2:09

Muriel Stode wrote strange poetry and we, in turn, do something strange with it. For more about this and other combinations of various words with various original music, visit frankhudson.org

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Walter de la Mare's Winter4:02

2M ago4:02

4:02

De la Mare's short ode to a winter scene performed with orchestra backing. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org

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The Young Intellectual3:59

2M ago3:59

3:59

Humorist Don Marquis examined the pretensions a very serious young person of the early 1920s. I added one update and present it for a 21st Century audience.

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Looking for a Way to Go4:09

3M ago4:09

4:09

Poet and musician Dave Moore expands on Dorothy Parker's famous critique of suicide in this song. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org

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The Vanishing Red2:16

3M ago2:16

2:16

Robert Frost's stark tale of a racially motivated murder told over piano, bass and drums. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org

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I'm Nobody Who Are You2:03

3M ago2:03

2:03

Emily Dickinson's playful side is displayed in this short audio piece performed with acoustic guitar, bass and electric piano.

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Tell All the Truth but Tell it Slant2:29

3M ago2:29

2:29

Emily Dickinson's ambiguous song about how we approach the truth performed with original folk-rock music. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org

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In the Time of the Breaking of Nations2:19

3M ago2:19

2:19

For this Armistice Day, let's hear a performance of Thomas Hardy's mysterious 63 word poem about war and time. For more about this and other combination of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org

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Easter Monday (In Memoriam E. T.)3:53

3M ago3:53

3:53

Eleanor Farjeon's elegy to Edward Thomas after Thomas' death in WWI, here performed with strings, piano, and drums. For more about this and other combinations of various words with orginal music, visit frankhudson.org

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The Owl3:19

3M ago3:19

3:19

British WWI poet Edward Thomas' nature poem performed here can be read as part of his personal debate about volunteering for the front lines. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org

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The Lone Trail4:01

3M ago4:01

4:01

Canadian poet Robert W. Service wrote often of endurance, here's one of his sung by Dave Moore and the LYL Band. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org

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I Am the People the Mob3:58

3M ago3:58

3:58

Carl Sandburg's trenchant political poem awaits its outcome. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org

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Witch Hunt6:22

4M ago6:22

6:22

Is this a Halloween song? A political commentary? An investigation of something that precedes and supersedes civilized politics? An excuse for me to fire up my Mellotron virtual instrument again? You decide. For more about this and other pieces combining various words (mostly poetry) with original music, visit frankhudson.org…

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From Tennyson's Ulysses3:38

4M ago3:38

3:38

Here’s a piece to celebrate the announced discovery of the oldest intact shipwreck, a 2,400-year-old Greek ship discovered in the Black Sea with its mast, rudder, and even a rower’s bench still in place. This can’t be fully romanced into being Ulysses’ ship—it’s centuries newer—but it does give us an object, beyond the stories, to remind us of ...…

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Magnetized4:46

4M ago4:46

4:46

As a bonus, although also low-fi, here’s what a putative ‘80s LYL Band as a fully realized rock band would sound like. We’d planned this gig at a Native American center with Dean Seal playing drums or bass on alternate numbers. We’d setup and sound-checked ourselves, and then left our instruments sitting on stands at the end of the building’s g ...…

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(I Think I've Lost My) Total Recall4:47

4M ago4:47

4:47

Don’t worry, we’re only taking a break from our regularly scheduled mix of various words (mostly poetry) with original music to tell the history of the Parlando Project’s alternate voice Dave Moore. So far in our story, he’s gone from poet to pioneering Twin Cities Indie band lyricist to full-fledged songwriter to singer-songwriter-keyboardist ...…

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Crepuscule (I Will Wade Out)3:10

4M ago3:10

3:10

Another short break in the Dave Moore series to present an unabashedly ecstatic poem by E. E. Cummings. The kind of Modernist poetry we often use here rarely presents itself like this, as the early 20th Century pioneers tended to be a downbeat and skeptical lot, even before the great tribulation of the First World War. Cummings isn’t the only e ...…

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What's Wrong with That4:15

4M ago4:15

4:15

In 1982, Dave Moore and the LYL Band asked this politically charged question about wealth and power. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music, visit frankhudson.org

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Scrap3:23

4M ago3:23

3:23

Dave Moore's scrappy punk song from 1981 revived in the 21st Century with this solo acoustic guitar and vocal version performed by Frank Hudson. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org

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Fog2:40

4M ago2:40

2:40

I’m going to take a break from my Dave Moore series today, if only because I rather like this piece I’ve been working on and want to present it to you. “Fog” is likely the most well-known poem by Carl Sandburg without Chicago in its title, and it appears in many school textbooks where it serves as an introduction to metaphor. The Carl Sandburg ...…

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The Night Inspector3:09

4M ago3:09

3:09

Did I skip over Dave Moore the poet and writer to get to Dave Moore the words and music guy? Perhaps. Let’s step back away from the 1980s and recap a bit in word-print silence, without the musical noises at the beginning. I met Dave almost exactly 50 years ago in 1968. And my first encounter found him reading his poetry in a church. He was also ...…

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Evil Man (Live at the Modern Times 1981)3:45

4M ago3:45

3:45

The ‘70s outburst of new bands that were called punk, then new wave, and finally indie can be traced to a beginning (or beginnings), and here’s what’s too-little recognized about that: it started with poets and writers. Some who know that punk didn’t start with Johnny Rotten, say that it all can be traced back a band that called itself Televisi ...…

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Nailed4:43

4M ago4:43

4:43

This month, I’m going to start a series here featuring the words and music of Dave Moore. This is different—and not—because long-time listeners will have heard Dave’s voice and words here from the beginning, but this time I’m going to expose a little more of Dave’s range of work. If you’ve come here expecting our usual eclectic mix of poetry fr ...…

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Justice Denied in Massachusetts3:03

4M ago3:03

3:03

Partly for the reason of sadness and disappointment with my country, and partly for disappointment with myself, it’s been difficult to focus on combining words and music recently. This is a value of one of the Parlando Project’s principles: Other Peoples’ Stories. When I cannot put the words together, I can listen and absorb someone else’s. Yes ...…

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To Autumn5:36

4M ago5:36

5:36

October 4th is National Poetry Day in the U.K. this year, an event similar, though more condensed, to the National Poetry Month in April promoted out of the U.S. No one’s revealed why April for the Poetry Month, though Chaucer and T. S. Eliot may have put in their votes, and the reasons for the fall date for Poetry Day could be arbitrary too. B ...…

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A Poison Tree4:10

5M ago4:10

4:10

Earlier this month I mused a bit about renowned poets’ “batting averages” when I use their words here, that the hall-of-famers and MVPs don’t always get the most likes and listens, that many of our most popular pieces use words from poets that are much lesser known. Of course, those levels of response may be secondary to the music Dave and I su ...…

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The Quadroon Girl6:29

5M ago6:29

6:29

Remember back a few episodes when the Parlando Project performed a question posed by poet Vijay Seshadri? He asked what poetry, or any art, can say about children in cages. There are many answers to that for poets. One obvious one: to say in your work that it is wrong and that you oppose it. One can argue that shouldn’t be avoided. Even if denu ...…

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Sincerely, M. Cohen4:55

5M ago4:55

4:55

As long-time listeners will know, the Parlando Project likes to vary what it does. Loud, immediate and approximate rock’n’roll, string quartets, folkie and electronica tinges combine with words that I look around for—different stories each time, most of them not mine. Are we now going to vary from Bronze Age Chinese poetry collected to instruct ...…

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Cold Is the North Wind2:30

5M ago2:30

2:30

Here’s one more musical piece from the anthology of ancient Chinese poetry collected by Confucius and his school and known as the Confucian Odes or The Book of Songs. This one may be my favorite, though my performance of it dates to a time before I could find literal translations to check against the extant English ones. Perhaps even more so th ...…

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