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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

The Drunken Singer

I remind myself today that I sometimes write lyrics, so here's a piece that features my own words...

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The Late Singer

William Carlos Williams' Spring poem reminds us that it's never too late to sing. I had to cancel...

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The Last Antelope

Edwin Ford Piper is an early 20th century Midwestern American poet who's largely been forgotten....

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When the Dream Outruns the Real

Poet Dave Moore's song about when "Follow your dream" or "Do what you love..." meets up with...

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Two Aunties by Fenton Johnson

Black Chicago poet Fenton Johnson published these two free-verse poetic portraits in Others...

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The Prodigal Son

Pioneering Black Chicago Poet Fenton Johnson termed this poem a literary spiritual in his 1915...

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Mistah Witch

Even in 1913, Black Chicago poet Fenton Johnson was already using Blues-language in his literary...

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Bonus Track: Mistah Witch as a simulated worn 78 RPM record

BONUS TRACK Black Chicago poet Fenton Johnson was using Blues Language as early as his 1913...

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The Wraithie's Message

Early 20th Century Afro-American poet Fenton Johnson again shows his range with this Celtic dark...

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Waters of Forgetfulness

Early 20th Century Black Chicago poet Fenton Johnson's dream poem references Virgil's "The...

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Fenton Johnson's "Dunbar"

In 1906, Paul Laurence Dunbar, the first Afro-American poet to receive substantial notice, died,...

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Robert Frost's Stars

American poet Robert Frost assiduously read the book of nature even when the pages were blank....

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If all the griefs I am to have

At least on the face of it, this short Emily Dickinson poem asks for a lifetime of experience all...

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Wanderers Nightsong II

Goethe's short lyric poem in German wanders into this short folksong arrangement via an English...

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The Sparrow

Here's song version of a Paul Lawrence Dunbar's poem. Dunbar is often reckoned the first...

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To not be scared of death that doesn't understand us

This is a winter sonnet I wrote portraying my thoughts of the mortal illness of another poet...

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Storm Fear

Robert Frost included this rural winter poem in his first collection A Boy's Will.  Concise it...

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Since There Is No Escape

Sara Teasdale praises life while facing death in her poem I've now performed with music.  For...

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The Oxen

Here's a musical performance of my setting of Thomas Hardy's deft poem about Christmas miracles....

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Anna Akhmatova's "Love"

Russian poet Akhmatova's poem portrays a skeptical and experienced view of falling in love. I...

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