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

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Video Playlists

Walt Whitman Songbook Videos

The Earth's Words (feat. Tiffany Pfeiffer)

Amelioration (feat. Philip W. Riegle)

Never Fail (feat. Kei Slaughter)

Three Hundred and Sixty–Five (feat. Stephanie Meyers)

Whoever You Are!(feat. Dawn Clement)

I Swear (feat. Mario Inchausti)

Tones of Souls (feat. Jo-Hannah Reynolds)

On the Beach at Night Alone (feat. Peter Spencer)

Laws for Creations (feat. Marjorie Halloran & Michael Garrett Steele)

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  The Earth's Words (feat. Tiffany Pfeiffer)

  From Craig Pallett's Walt Whitman Songbook. This is the first of seven songs based on Walt Whitman's 'A Song of the Rolling Earth'. Featuring Tiffany Pfeiffer on Vocals. All music composed, performed, engineered, mixed, mastered by Craig Pallett. Text - Walt Whitman Video - Craig Pallett Video Content - Pixabay
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  Amelioration (feat. Philip W. Riegle)

  Featuring Philip W. Riegle on Vocals. All music composed, performed, engineered, mixed, mastered by Craig Pallett. Text - Walt Whitman Video Composites - Craig Pallett Video Content - Pixabay
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  Never Fail (feat. Kei Slaughter)

  Featuring Kei Slaughter on Vocals. All music composed, performed, engineered, mixed, mastered by Craig Pallett. Additional Drum Programming - David Crigger Text - Walt Whitman Video Composites - Craig Pallett Video Content - NASA Perseverance Rover animations.
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  Three Hundred and Sixty–Five (feat. Stephanie Meyers)

  Featuring Stephanie Meyers on Vocals. All music composed, performed, engineered, mixed, mastered by Craig Pallett. Additional Drum Programming - David Crigger Text - Walt Whitman Video Composites - Craig Pallett
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  Whoever You Are!(feat. Dawn Clement)

  Featuring Dawn Clement on Vocals. All music composed, performed, engineered, mixed by Craig Pallett. Percussion by David Crigger Text - Walt Whitman Video Composites - Craig Pallett Video Content - Pixbay.com
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  I Swear (feat. Mario Inchausti)

  Mario Inchausti - Vocals Steve Bartek - Guitars Leon Gaer - Electric Bass David Crigger - Drums Craig Pallett - Keyboards, composer Text - Walt Whitman Video Composites - Craig Pallett Video Content - Pixbay.com
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  Tones of Souls (feat. Jo-Hannah Reynolds)

  Tones of Souls Last song of the 'A Song of the Rolling Earth' suite, created by Craig Pallett based on Walt Whitman's work. Featuring Jo-Hannah Reynolds - Vocals Craig Pallett - Music David Crigger - Percussion Walt Whitman - Text Craig Pallett - Video Composite Pixabay - Video Content
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  On the Beach at Night Alone (feat. Peter Spencer)

  From the Album 'Walt Whitman Songbook' Poem by Walt Whitman Composed - Craig Pallett Vocals - Peter Spencer Percussion Performance and Arrangement - Jessica Collado All Programming/Keyboards/Arrangement - Craig Pallett Vocals recorded/engineered by Craig Pallett in August 2019 Montpelier, VT Video Composite - Craig Pallett Video Content - Pixabay, Peter Spencer, Craig Pallett Copyright 2020 Affinity Systems (BMI) Based on the 2019 Songbook of the same title available on Amazon. Produced, Engineered, Mixed and Mastered - Craig Pallett
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  Laws for Creations (feat. Marjorie Halloran & Michael Garrett Steele)

  From the album 'Walt Whitman Songbook' by Craig Pallett Vocals - Marjorie Halloran & Michael Garrett Steele Percussion Performance and Arrangement - Craig Pallett Halloran vocals recorded/engineered by Craig Pallett in February 2020 Montpelier, VT Composed by Craig Pallett Text by Walt Whitman Copyright 2020 Affinity Systems (BMI) Based on the 2019 Songbook of the same title available on Amazon. Produced, Engineered, Mixed and Mastered - Craig Pallett

Meditations for Violin with Mary Rowell Videos

Meditations for Violin - Release Party - TURNMusic

Vermont Tornado

Blueberries

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  Meditations for Violin - Release Party - TURNMusic

  Full 40 minute video feed created for the Mary Rowell TURNmusic event on 5/15/2020 - Which featured the release of Meditations for Violin. Features Mary Rowell, Craig Pallett, Anne Decker and adventures through the North East Kingdom of Vermont.
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  Vermont Tornado

  Vermont Tornado From the album ‘Meditations for Violin’ Violin - Mary Rowell Composer, Electronics, Programming, Keyboards - Craig Pallett Produced by - Craig Pallett and Mary Rowell Engineered and Mastered - Craig Pallett Recorded October 2019 Affinity Studios Vermont Video composite and editing - Craig Pallett Live Video Credits Premiere Performance September 10, 2016 North Country Electronic Music Festival ArtsRiot Burlington Vermont Thanks to TURNmusic, Anne Decker, David Morneau, and Dennis Bathory-Kitsz Video by Dennis Bathory-Kitsz April 22, 2017 Performed as part of Composers Concordance & Goddard Riverside Community Arts 'Generations VII’ concert Goddard Riverside - Bernie Wohl Center, New York, New York Featuring Mary Rowell - violin, Justin Kantor - cello, Kaoru Watanabe - flutes, CompCord Guitar Quartet: Thanks to Gene Pritsker, Dan Cooper and Composers Concordance Additional footage Pixabay From the album Meditations for Violin Mary Rowell and Craig Pallett Cover designed by Chris Demers
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  Blueberries

  From the album ‘Meditations for Violin’ Violin - Mary Rowell Composer, Electronics, Programming, Keyboards - Craig Pallett Produced by - Craig Pallett and Mary Rowell Engineered and Mastered - Craig Pallett Recorded October 2019 Affinity Studios Vermont Video composite and editing - Craig Pallett From the album Meditations for Violin Mary Rowell and Craig Pallett Cover designed by Chris Demers

Ensembles Live Videos

March Absurdo - Craig Pallett - Ensembles Live

Finale Grande - Craig Pallett - Ensembles Live

Carousel: Wheel of Life/Wheel of Fortune - Craig Pallett - Ensembles Live

Animal Spirits - Craig Pallett - Ensembles

Signals 0 1 - Craig Pallett - Ensembles

Tiferet Suite - Craig Pallett - Ensembles Live

True Freedom - Craig Pallett - Ensembles Live

Fado Portugal - Craig Pallett - Ensembles Live

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  March Absurdo - Craig Pallett - Ensembles Live

  March Absurdo for Piano Trio. Feb 11th 2014 Live premiere at VCFA . Jennifer Choi - Violin, Yves Dharamraj - Cello, Stephen Gosling - Piano, Craig Pallett - Composer
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  Finale Grande - Craig Pallett - Ensembles Live

  Finale Grande for Piano Trio. Feb 11th 2014 Live premiere at VCFA . Jennifer Choi - Violin, Yves Dharamraj - Cello, Stephen Gosling - Piano, Craig Pallett - Composer
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  Carousel: Wheel of Life/Wheel of Fortune - Craig Pallett - Ensembles Live

  Composed by Craig Pallett Feb 11 2015 VCFA Saxophones - Ken Thomson, Ed Rosenberg, Peter Hess, Alex Hamlin Original Video, Live Audio recorded by Colin J. McCaffrey
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  Animal Spirits - Craig Pallett - Ensembles

  Animal Spirits from the CD Craig Pallett Ensembles. Video - Chris Demers, Craig Pallett Marimba - David Cossin Violin - Jennifer Choi, Mary Rowell Viola - Lev 'Ljova' Zhurbin Cello - Wendy Law Recorded at Dubway Studios. Mixed by Don DiNicola Produced by Craig Pallett & Don DiNicola Available at http://www.craigpallett.com
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  Signals 0 1 - Craig Pallett - Ensembles

  From the album Ensembles. Craig Pallett - Trumpet, Electronics, Video, Composer. Audio Produced by Craig Pallett and Don DiNicola Mixed by Don DiNicola
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  Tiferet Suite - Craig Pallett - Ensembles Live

  Tiferet Suite - 3 Episodes for String Quartet - Premiere 8/5/2015 - Vermont College of Fine Arts. Composed by Craig Pallett. Mary Rowell - violin, Jennifer Choi - violin, Katie Kresek - viola, Wendy Law - cello Colin J. McCaffrey- Live Audio Recording
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  True Freedom - Craig Pallett - Ensembles Live

  True Freedom -Trombone Solo - Lloyd Dugger, Composer and Digital Media - Craig Pallett, Bass - Andy West. Live performance at VCFA 2-9-2015
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  Fado Portugal - Craig Pallett - Ensembles Live

  Fado Portugal from Piano Trio 1 - Composed by Craig Pallett February 11, 2014 VCFA New Music Trio - Jennifer Choi - violin, Yves Dharamraj - cello, Stephen Gosling - piano, Colin J. McCaffrey - Audio, Elizabeth Parker - Video, Jessica Collado - Video

Books

A 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
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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 Grass, Laws 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.”

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