A Sonnet of Two Letters

Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

One of this Project's mottos is "Other People's Stories," which means that I'm usually setting and performing other poets' work. Today's piece is one of the exceptions, using a sonnet I wrote.

At least I think I wrote it. I found a draft of today's piece among some old papers this Fall and recognized it as being in my own handwriting -- but I have no memory of writing it. I found its mysteriousness compelling, and so went about setting it to music for the performance you can hear today.

The Parlando Project combines various words (usually literary poetry) with original music in differing styles. We've done over 750 of those combinations and you can hear all of them and read about our encounters with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org