Roger Lee Hall

 

Poet and Writer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poetry

Roger Lee Hall has written a series of poems about his life and music and a collection of them are included in the collection: "Dream World" - Songs, Poems, Stories.

He has also written many haiku poems and six of them have been set to music as six haiku songs, Op. 3.

 

 

Plays

Three of his one act plays have been produced and directed by him and were videotaped at their first performances:

"The Grand Constitution"

Celebrating the 200th anniversaries of the U.S. Constitution and The Stoughton Musical Society Constitution, both written in 1787.

This play concerns the writing of the Stoughton Musical Society's Constitution, the oldest one of any musical organization in the United States.

Music by William Brown, Francis Hopkinson, Alexander Reinagle, William Billings, and Roger Hall.

Videotaped at the Stoughton Public Library, Stoughton, Massachusetts, October 1987.



"The Musical Telephone"

This play was based on a chapter from Edward Bellamy's influential futuristic novel, Looking Backward (1888).

Music by Edwin Arthur Jones, Joseph Brackett, and Roger Hall.

Videotaped at the opening event in the Bellamy Centennial Conference, Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts, September 1988.

 


"William Billings Teaching A Singing School"

This play was based on words and music by America's first prominent choral composer, William Billings (1746-1800).

The story invloves William Billings teaching a singing school in Stoughton, Massachusetts, where he actually did teach a school in 1774.

Videotaped live at the program, "A Stoughton Musicfest" in October, 1990.