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Poems: Gertrude Stein, an excerpt from Four Saints in Three Acts, an opera composed by Virgil Thomson with libretto by Stein.
This is the section that begins with “Pigeons on the grass alas alas.”

Gertrude Stein, Poet.

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Walt Whitman’s “A Noiseless Patient Spider“:

Algernon Charles Swinburne’s “Before the Beginning of Years“:

My name is Algernon Charles Swinburne, and I am a poet.

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It’s the fall of 2011, and we’re back. Once again, we bring you the tortured voices of poets accompanied by guitar.

William Blake’s “The Garden of Love”:

It wouldn’t be Parallel Octave back in session without yet another recording of Wallace Stevens’s “Emperor of Ice-Cream”:

"I went to the Garden of Love..."

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We are pleased to announce that 6 of the 8 short films from ANTHOLOGY I are now available for online viewing, both on our website and our glossy high-powered Parallel Octave YouTube channel.

Here’s one for the road: Alice Venessa Bever’s poignant documentary-style short “From Sole To Crown,” based on “Richard Cory” by E.A. Robinson, complete with footage from Italy and Wyoming:

More of the films here and here; films based on the poetry of Yeats, Dickinson, Herrick, Stevens, and more.

NEWSFLASH: Progress! 5 out of the 6 short films we are going to put online from ANTHOLOGY I are now up on YouTube and the Anthology I page. We’ll do a rollout of our shiny new Parallel Octave YouTube channel as soon as we track down the sixth–but for now, if you’re hard-core enough to be checking our website, check out the films! Here’s one to get you started: Ryan Edel’s short film “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” based on “The Second Coming” by W.B. Yeats, complete with stop-motion plastic penguins!

We are excited. See more of the films here and here.

Two members of the Parallel Octave core group–Dara Weinberg & Danny Schwartz–just finished taking a week-long theater workshop with Song of the Goat in Wroclaw. Dara will be in Poland for the remainder of the 2011-2012 year, but Danny will be bringing some of the techniques we learned back to Baltimore audiences and Baltimore schools.

If you’re interested in having Parallel Octave do a chorus workshop at your school (we already have several coming in the fall), contact us at paralleloctaveATgmail.com.

L to R: Sandy Koll, Richard Goldberg, Dara Weinberg, Joe Martin, with Adam Gray's film in the background.

Same as above.

Audience!

More images from the ANTH I screening follow, all by photographer Lloyd Lowe:
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Parallel Octave
conducting an open session with the audience
on a selection from Ron Allen’s short play X RESTRUNG CORTEX
this Sunday, July 17 @ Artscape,
as part of High Zero / Worlds in Collusion,
at High Noon, for One Hour,
in the AIR-CONDITIONED COMFORT of
the University of Baltimore Student center, 5th floor (SE Corner Mt Royal & Maryland)
Admission: Free

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Tickets on sale now for the screening of ANTHOLOGY I tonight at the Creative Alliance, 3134 Eastern Ave. 7 PM. Tickets: $10. (410) 276-1651. More information here and here and here.

Still from Adam Gray's film, "The Space Between Her Eyes and Mine," based on Hart Crane's poem "My Grandmother's Love Letters."

PRESS:
Baltimore Fishbowl
Music director Joe Martin interviewed at WYPR’s The Signal
Baltimore Urbanite

Another still from Adam's Hart Crane film.

Program follows:

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PENGUIN STRIKE!!! ANTHOLOGY I screens tomorrow, Friday, July 8th, at the Creative Alliance at 7 PM.

The ten-second teaser, “Penguin Strike”:

The longer trailer, “Penguin Strike II: The Second Coming”:

Both videos were created by ANTHOLOGY I editor Ryan Edel from his short film “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” based on “The Second Coming” by W.B. Yeats.