The Selected Works of Georgia Douglas Johnson by Georgia Douglas Johnson

I bent the rules to publish this older performance that Dave Moore and the LYL Band did with my off-the-cuff reading of a piece from Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island of the Mind collection that so many treasured decades ago. Per the radio-play practical audio-effects tradition: in the wintertime it’s nice to sit next to the crinkling cellophane and work on your manuscript.ĩ The world is a beautiful place by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

You can hear it one of two ways: this highlighted hyperlink, or for some of you, a player gadget below.

I’m also quite proud of the music I composed for this one. I solved a difficult problem by treating this scene as “poetic” enough to work with the music and then locating a dialog performance that let me avoid trying to do the voices of the two women myself. Should they tell their husbands what they found? While the men continue their very official investigation, the two women discover a dead canary entombed in a fancy box and connect it with the lonely life of the farmwife. At this point in the play, we know that a farmer has been strangled there and that his wife, Minnie, has been taken into custody as a suspect, even though there is some doubt that a small, quiet woman could have had the motivation and strength to commit such an act. Glaspell is not a poet like most writers I present, but this short scene is from what remains her most famous work: a still effective short play about two women who have accompanied their husbands who are charged with investigating a murder* in a remote 1900 Iowa farmhouse. I wanted to do something special for this project’s 500 th audio piece, and I decided to try to use some words from my distant relative who was herself a figure in the Modernist revolution of the early 20 th Century that I mine for many of the pieces used here.

The bold-faced titles are links to the original post that introduced the piece in case you want to read what I wrote then.ġ0 Trifles – I Know What Stillness Is by Susan Glaspell. Which ones did the Parlando Project readers and listeners most connect with?Īs we usually do, this is a countdown, so we start with the 10 th most listened to and liked piece, and then over the next few posts we’ll move on to the most popular this winter. It may be a bit strange to revisit a winter we are glad to be emerging from, but poetry is about remembrance of all kinds of emotions and experiences. I’ve been tardy in many things for this project lately - but let me get on to recounting which pieces were most liked and listened to during the past quarter.

The Selected Works of Georgia Douglas Johnson by Georgia Douglas Johnson