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“Dust and ashes — we hold them up in our open palm and let the wind take them away.”
It’s time for letting go, or even letting yourself go, as you accept our invitation to attend to a show with some lively songs from many regular contributors, poems from Whitman, Elizabeth Bishop, RLS, and thoughts on all of this and more from RLA, your friendly host for this occasion. See you there.
Tags: Around the Dial, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Closing Time, Dr Hook, Elizabeth Bishop, Fraggle Rock, Get Going, Going going gone, Hello Good-bye, If I'd only come and gone, Journey through the Seasons, Kinks, Leonard Cohen, Losing You, One Art, Passage to India, Randy Newman, Robert Louis Stevenson, This is the Sea, Walt Whitman, Waterboys, Where go the boats?
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"My boy was by my side, so slim /And graceful in his rustic dress!"
We invite you attend to children, in their innocence, their playfulness, their horror too. We have as our guests this time Donovan, the Incredible String Band, Anne Sylvestre, Mokey Fraggle, Randy Newman, Kinky Friedman, and Dylan and the Kinks, with readings from Wordsworth and RLS, plus the myth of Niobe.
"Beaver, I believe her, is gone."
Tags: Anecdote for Fathers, Anne Sylvestre, Art Lover, Child's Play, Donovan, Dylan, Fraggle Rock, Incredible String Band, Kinks, Kinky Friedman, Leave It to Beaver, Lord Protect My Child, Randy Newman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Wordsworth
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Daphne and Apollo
What relationship develops in that space between the artist and the work of art, between the singer and the song, between the reader and the book? Tone brings it all to life, so we want to open and be attuned to what’s being asked of us in this space. It can happen to us anytime. We invite you to attend, and be attuned, to our show, featuring, among much else, an examination of the Daphne and Apollo story – a mythic retelling of the way the art itself loves the artist. We have on the show the Kinks, and Dylan, and the Fraggles, Leonard Cohen, the Miracles, and also a touch of raga and an ancient Greek hymn, with readings from RLS and Ovid.
Tags: ainoma, Ballad of a Thin Man, Dylan, Fraggle Rock, Kinks, Leonard Cohen, Ovid, raga, Ravi Shankar, Robert Louis Stevenson, Smokey Robinson, The Miracles
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Ainoma, the space between two structures in a Japanese temple
Ainoma, the space between, where you are in two places at once, or neither, beyond logic, confused perhaps, but open and ready for some kind of enlightenment, “about as near Nirvana as would be convenient in practical life”, as RLS says. We invite you to attend to discussion, readings and music on this theme.
Tags: ainoma, Alice through the Looking Glass, An Inland Voyage, Animals in the Zoo, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Child's Garden of Verses, Embryonic Journey, Four Quartets, I'm Only Sleeping, Incredible String Band, Japanese temple, Jefferson Airplane, Kinks, Mike Scott, Nirvana, Not Dark Yet, Open, Ram Das, Stevenson, Story-Books in Winter, T.S. Eliot, Waterboys, Wendell Berry
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"I lean and loafe at my ease" - Walt Whitman
We invite you to attend to an evening, under lamplight, examining idling. There are readings from Thoreau, Whitman, Mark Twain, RLS, and lots of different kinds of music: Scottish, Yiddish, French, American country-folk, psychedelic, plus Kinks and Dylan, and a little more. Put your work aside and spend an hour here, in fruitful idleness.
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As part of Cambridge 105’s Diamond Jubilee Marathon, Evening under Lamplight invites you to attend our two-hour special on the subject of Diamonds: gemstones, metaphors, playing cards; Dylan, Baez, Tom Waits, T-Bone Burnett, Waylon Jennings, and many more. 
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Hermes Logios
Tags: Caprice 13, Dylan, Hermes, Holst Planets, Jack Glatzer, Jim Steinman, Kinks, Lamplight, Mercury, on a hot summer night, Ophelia, Over the Edge, Paganini, Pan, Poornamadah, Ravi Shankar, Series of Dreams, The Band, Vivaldi, Waterboys, Winter Largo, You took the words right out of my mouth
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Pan: "sunshiny, lewd, and cruel"
Lamplight 79.2 [Click this link rather than the links above, please.] We’re attending to the energy of Pan, which springs up to us through the music of his pipes, bringing the Spring energy of kindness and anger. We look at Wind in the Willows and RLS’s essay on “Pan’s Pipes”, and we hear a selection of Pan music played, some of the time, on the pan-pipes themselves.
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We invite you to come attend to Eyes with . We have music from Dr Hook, Billie Holiday, Faye Kellerstein, the Lovin’ Spoonful, Taj Mahal, the Kinks, Dylan and Miriam Makeba, and readings from Raymond Chander, William McGonnagall and RLS. But come see with your own eyes.
