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Craig Pallett is a Vermont based Composer
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Chamber, Jazz and Electronic music.

Recent Video Release – Walt Whitman Songbook

France, The 18th Year of these States. (feat. Sarah LeMieux)

Composed by Craig Pallett
Text by Walt Whitman
Produced, Engineered, Mixed and Mastered – Craig Pallett
Vocals – Sarah LeMieux
All Programming, Orchestrations, Arrangements, Digital Manipulation – Craig Pallett
Percussion Arrangements by David Crigger
All images created by Craig using DALL-E Ai Technology

New Short Film

Walt Whitman’s – A Song of the Rolling Earth

A Short Film by Craig Pallett based on ‘A Song of the Rolling Earth’ by Walt Whitman.

Vocals by Tiffany Pfeiffer, Philip W. Riegle, Kei Slaughter, Stephanie Meyers, Dawn Clement, Mario Inchausti, Jo-Hannah Reynolds & Craig Pallett.

Music by Craig Pallett

Percussion Arrangements and Performances by David Crigger, Jessica Collado and Craig Pallett.

‘I Swear’ features Steve Bartek – Guitars, Leon Gaer – Bass and David Crigger – Drums.

Video Composites by Craig Pallett based on Pixabay and Archive Digital Content.

Music recorded, composed, engineered, arranged, mixed and mastered by Craig Pallett.

New Video – Boxed In from Sugarhouse

Craig Pallett with Michael Morera on Saxes and Mohammed Nazam on Guitars with special guest Andy West on Bass.

New Video – Easy Balance from Sugarhouse

featuring Michael Morera – Saxes and Mohammed Nazam – Guitars.

“Violinist Mary Rowell and composer-keyboardist Craig Pallett showcased their just released album “Meditations for Violin” – an entrancing piece of Vermontiana.”
Read more…..

Jim Lowe, Barre-Montpelier Times Argus, May 17, 2020, ‘Have violin and dog, will travel’

Recent Audio Releases

Video Playlists

Walt Whitman Songbook Videos

Meditations for Violin with Mary Rowell Videos

Ensembles Live Videos

Books

Whitman-FrontCover-579x760A Walt Whitman Songbook
A Song of the Rolling Earth for Voice and Piano

Music by Craig Pallett based on the Walt Whitman Text

Released on May 15th 2019
Now Available:
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A Walt Whitman Songbook contains 10 new musical works by Vermont based composer Craig Pallett. This songbook was created for Voice and Piano. It primarily explores Whitman’s work called A Song of the Rolling Earth, from the 1891-92 edition of Leaves of Grass. The composer has not altered the natural flow of the text. Due to the length of A Song of the Rolling Earth he has broken the text into 7 different songs. The composer has named these, The Earths’s Words, Amelioration, Never Fail, Three Hundred and Sixty-Five, Whoever You Are!, I Swear and Tones of Souls primarily to help the public and musicians reference each song. Though it can be presented as a full suite, performance time is 35 minutes, each song can stand on it’s own as an individual work.

Besides A Song of the Rolling Earth, the songbook includes 3 other Whitman works from Leaves of GrassLaws for Creations, On the Beach at Night Alone and France, The 18th Year of these States.

From the Composers Notes.

“I chose not to alter Whitman’s text in any way. This includes not repeating material or changing the structure of the actual text, both of which might make the works more “song–like”. I wanted to have a sense of churning piano rhythms and patterns with a folk–like melody. Whitman’s works that I chose are very rhythmically segmented verses many of them flow from one rhythmic structure to another. Sometimes only 2 verses flow in the same fashion, and then proceed into different ideas and forms. At times, there is a singular verse that has no rhythmic relationship to any other verse in his text.”

Recent Posts

Sugarhouse (feat. Michael Morera & Mohammed Nazam)

Track List

Air Ways – 7:40
Light in the Sky – 5:13
Easy Balance – 6:08
Boxed In – 7:02
Coins in the Air – 5:25
More to Come – 4:41
Fire Side – 4:44

Michael Morera – Saxes
Mohammed Nazam – Guitars
Craig Pallett – Trumpets, Keyboards, Drum & Bass Programming, Compositions, Engineered, Mix and Master.
Andy West – Bass (‘Boxed In’ only)

2021 Affinity Systems

  1. Walt Whitman Songbook – Zoom discussions with Musicians Comments Off on Walt Whitman Songbook – Zoom discussions with Musicians
  2. Buddha – Reflective Compositions Comments Off on Buddha – Reflective Compositions
  3. On the Beach at Night Alone (feat. Peter Spencer) – New Video Comments Off on On the Beach at Night Alone (feat. Peter Spencer) – New Video
  4. Laws for Creations (feat. Marjorie Halloran & Michael Garrett Steele) – New Video Comments Off on Laws for Creations (feat. Marjorie Halloran & Michael Garrett Steele) – New Video
  5. Tones of Souls – Featuring Jo-Hannah Reynolds – Video Release Comments Off on Tones of Souls – Featuring Jo-Hannah Reynolds – Video Release
  6. I Swear – Featuring Mario Inchausti – Video Release Comments Off on I Swear – Featuring Mario Inchausti – Video Release
  7. Whoever You Are! – Featuring Dawn Clement – Video Release Comments Off on Whoever You Are! – Featuring Dawn Clement – Video Release
  8. Three Hundred and Sixty-Five – Featuring Stephanie Meyers – Video Released Comments Off on Three Hundred and Sixty-Five – Featuring Stephanie Meyers – Video Released
  9. Never Fail – Featuring Kei Slaughter – Video released Comments Off on Never Fail – Featuring Kei Slaughter – Video released