Craig Pallett is a Vermont based Composer
of
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.
“Violinist Mary Rowell and composer-keyboardist Craig Pallett showcased their just released album “Meditations for Violin” – an entrancing piece of Vermontiana.”
Jim Lowe, Barre-Montpelier Times Argus, May 17, 2020, ‘Have violin and dog, will travel’
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Recent Audio Releases
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 -
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 -
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. -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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. -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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.”