HeyJaredParlando - 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.
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a song made from Fenton Johnson's "Revery" (opens the original)
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Longtime followers of this Project will know that I'm a proponent of early 20th century Chicago Afro-American poet Fenton Johnson. The "elevator pitch" for Johnson is that he slots in between Paul Laurence Dunbar and the slightly later Harlem Renaissance. Back then, prominent contemporary Black critics such as the remarkable polymath James Weldon Johnson categorized Fenton Johnson's work as altogether "radical" and "full of despair," enough so that they were of mixed feelings about the value of
Tell me where is Fancy Bred: Shakespeare the Songbird Poet (opens the original)
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In writing about Sara Teasdale last time over at the Parlando Project blog I mentioned that she has been grouped with a set of 20th century female poets as a "Songbird Poet." The implied charge here is that these poets are less concerned with the deep meaning of poetry and are content to just make pleasant word-music. Upholding up the deeper meaning school I'd have an opening to report that the songs of birds are not all pleasant and meaningless. They sing for desire, for companionship, and for
September Midnight (opens the original)
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Here's a sensuous poem for the season written by Sara Teasdale. In it she gets as close in as Emily Dickinson might while listening to the more subtle nature's chorus of Autumn. 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
Yes, I Am Experienced (opens the original)
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This is the shorter ("single-length") version of my annual Jimi Hendrix memorial observance. As such, it celebrates loud, expressive, electric guitar, but scattered in there are a few words I remembered from Eric Burdon's 1967 LP cut "Yes, I Am Experienced" praising Hendrix. The Parlando Project takes various words (usually 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 encount
Habitude (opens the original)
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Concluding our series of musical performances of fresh English translations early poems by French Surrealist Paul Éluard, I present this short Dada piece made up of outrageous statements. 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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