Roger Lee Hall

 

Poet and Writer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poetry

Roger Lee Hall has written a series of memoirs about his life in music

First title in the Memories And Music series:

"Dream World" - Songs, Poems and Stories (PineTree Press, 2005)

with his early pop song lyrics, his early poems, and personal stories about his early years.

 

He has also written many haiku poems and he has set some of them to music, for example: 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 in Stoughton, Massachusetts, October 1987.

Read more at:

Singing Stoughton

"The Musical Telephone"

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

Music in the play by Edwin Arthur Jones, Joseph Brackett, and Roger Lee Hall.

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

Read more at:

The Musical Telephone


"William Billings Teaches 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.

Read more about this play at:

Old Stoughton: Singing Meetings and Concerts