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We invite you to Come Dancing, as we attend to various aspects of dancing – at the pally, with Henry, with swaying skirt, without clothes, on Shabbat, with an Amazing Dancing Bear, and, of course, to the end of Love.
Dante and Virgil stuck before the Gates of Dis
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Why not give a gift of Evening under Lamplight – to you and those dear to you? All it takes is a click to listen to the show, which this month looks at different aspects of gifts: in Homer, in Irish fairy woods, on Broadway, from Spain, and, yes, at Christmas time too, though there’s something perverse about our Christmas gift songs. You are invited to attend to what’s on offer.
Tags: Anne Page, Bach, Bedlam Six, Boots of Spanish Leather, Cassandra, Dylan, Elgins, Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, Father Christmas, Full Measure, gifts, Guys and Dolls, Heaven Must Have Sent You, Homer, Judgment of Paris, Kinks, Louis Barabbas, Lovin Spoonful, Private Eye, Stevenson, Take back Your Mink
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We are attending to the Autumn Energy of Departure: life seems to diminish, and calls us to depart on a new journey, first into darkness, and then springing into new life. But first, the Calling out of the Wasteland, and the testing to see if we are really ready for this journey. It’s threatening only to the ego. So let’s look at some Wastelands, some methods of Calling and being Tested.
Tags: A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Autumn Energy, Bob Dylan, Chinese healing energy, Consider the Lilies, Country Joe and the Fish, Departure, Dock of the Bay, Flannery O'Connor, Frank Zappa, Hero with a Thousand Faces, Iain Crichton Smith, Joseph Campbell, Journey through the Seasons, Kinks, Magoo, meditation, Mothers of Invention, Otis Redding, Rolling Stones, Satisfaction, Scattered, Taoist energy, The Man with the Long Black Coat, The Violent Bear It Away
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Journey through the Seasons
Here is an old 209Radio show, about Winter – that stage of the Cyclical Journey.
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“Confused, misused, and in the dark” – is that what’s wrong with you, brother? Well, come along with us and attend to a show on Confusion – filled with delightful songs and wise words. What more do you want? We have Temptations, the Old Philosopher, George Eliot, Henry Adams, Ted Baird, RLS on “Crabbed Age and Youth” – and music by Lovin’ Spoonful, Randy Newman, and of course Kinks and Dylan. We invite you to attend.
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You are invited to attend to some songs and readings about bells, specifically, as it turned out, church bells. We have two (odd) songs from the 1950s in our Featuring Philadelphia Music slot, and some other pieces, predictable and not quite so predictable. Come join us there.
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Michelangelo's Jonah
You remember Jonah, right? The prophet who ran away and got swallowed by the whale? Great story, but worth attending to a little more closely. You’re invited to attend with us, to this little literary masterpiece, with lots of interesting, and even sometimes relevant, music to help us along the way.
Tags: Bible, Black Messiah, Dylan, Every Grain of Sand, Fisk Jubilee Singers, I Shall Be Released, Jonah, Kinks, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Spitting Image, The Band, Wes Homner
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Harvest Abundance
A change of season once again: from Summer Heat to Harvest, with its twin offerings of Anxiety, and Abundance. You are invited to attend to both states, with readings, songs and meditations to help you out – you and me doing it together.
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"I'm the last of the soot and scum brigade"
Attend with us to trains – the mournful whistles, the powerful chugging, the speedy, rhythmic movement. We see people longing for trains, chasing trains, looking out of trains, lamenting the loss of steam and the slow trains waiting to take us to better places, and we hear all these musicians imitating the train sounds.
