rla on October 22nd, 2012

"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."

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rla on September 24th, 2012

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.

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rla on August 27th, 2012

Lamplight 84 Ainoma

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.

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rla on July 30th, 2012

"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.

rla on July 2nd, 2012

[To hear the Fire episode, click the icon above with the arrow rather than the “play in new window” or “download” buttons. I don’t know why the page is behaving awkwardly this month. Thanks for your patience.]

We celebrate Summer Fire on this month’s Evening under Lamplight, with songs and readings about real fires and passionate fires and divine fire. We can throw out only a few sparks from this huge subject, but that may be enough to ignite something within you, so take up your invitation to attend to the latest show, with our usual Dylan, Kinks, and RLS, here describing Monterey forest fires, plus Gina Barecca, Randy Newman, the Doors, the Rolling Stones, Al Green, Leonard Cohen, and, of course, Dante – not the Inferno but the Purgatorio. Oh, and also the Summer Meditation from Journey through the Seasons.

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rla on June 8th, 2012

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.

rla on May 7th, 2012

We invite you to attend to Hermes, or Mercury, the trickster god, but we also see him crossing boundaries, over the edge, earthing and unearthing, and leading us through dreams to the Otherworld “where the time and the tempo fly”. Poems by Emily Dickinson, Robert Graves, and Karen Yelena Olsen, tribute to Levon Helm and mazeltov to Jim Steinman. And, as always, the Kinks, Dylan, and RLS.

Hermes Logios

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rla on April 9th, 2012

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.

rla on March 13th, 2012

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.

rla on February 27th, 2012

You’re invited to attend to GAMBLING – playing your hand, placing your bets, bluffing, of course, and tossing the dice. Rambling gamblers are here, and that knavish Jack of Hearts, and a special look into the *aleatory* aspects of life. The show was a lot of fun to do, and my gamble is that it will also be a lot of fun to listen to. Wanna bet on it?