Church of the Infinite 90.1

Boo! The sermon for Nov 12-13 is a Charles Dickens ghost story, as an inoculation against the inevitable Christmas season repeat of that other one. Also, meditations accompanied by J. Sibelius and J. Strauss, with Faure and Funkadelic, Bach and the Blues, Miles and the Dead, all in attendance.

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In the Nov 5-6 service on KPFTHouston.bsky.social, we learn the ultimate galactic question as Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide concludes. Meditations by the Mitchell-Ruff Duo and the Cincinnati Pops. Also the Mary Lou Williams Girl Stars and guitars from Terry Ware, Harper, and Django Reinhardt.

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Ghoulies and ghosties abound in our service of Oct. 29-30, with ghost stories by Bram Stoker and HH Munro as well as Night on Bald Mountain. Check our profile for time and place. The Church of the Infinite's collection plate sits at kpft.org as the KPFTHouston.bsky.social fund drive continues.

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The Oct. 22-3 service meditates musically on gold and silver to ask you to donate to KPFTHouston.bsky.social by visiting kpft.org. Douglas Adams's Hitchhikers' Guide resumes, and we hear some suite musical segues from folks like the Stones, the Dead, Pink Floyd, Dr. Rockit, a Marsalis and Bob Wills.

I wish I'd told you about last week's show, but you can still listen at archive.kpft.org. Douglas Adams again guided galactic hitchhikers, and we meditated on money, with the Age of Gold, Barrett Strong, The Hot Club Of Cowtown, Bruce Springsteen, and the Grateful Dead, Joel Grey, and more.

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The Heart of Gold reaches Magrathea on the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy this week, Oct 8-9, on kpft.org (kpfthouston.bsky.social). We'll meditate to music of Hildegard von Bingen, Metamorfos, and Jaco Pastorius. Jimmy Buffett and Cheech and Chong will stick out of the service like sore thumbs.

You forget how dangerous escalators can be

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This week, Oct 1-2, our service on kpft.org (kpfthouston.bdky.social) is rich in classic B's: Bach, Bruckner, Boulez, and Barenboim, with Braff for jazz. Our galactic sermon comes from the Hitchhiker's Guide, and our meditations are by Robert Schumann and Phil Lesh. Plenty of Latin music as well.

The Church of the Infinite (@KPFTHouston.bsky.social) celebrates Monday's equinox Wed. 10PM HD2, Thur 3AM HD1, or anytime at archive.kpft.org. One Meditation comes from 11 different versions of Pictures at an Exhibition, and we revisit the original BBC serial of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

In this week's service on @KPFTHouston, meditate on the circle of fifths through 6 of Rachmaninov's preludes, ending in the enharmonic major of the prelude that won him his reputation. Also, a short story by DH Lawrence, and equinoctial meditation on Summer by Josef Suk. Wed 10PM HD2, Thu 3AM HD1.

Is it true that men who say the South will rise again are trying to compensate for little dixies?

Keep your seat belts fastened low and tight across your waist, because it is conjectured that our Milky Way may collide with the Andromeda Galaxy in about 10 billion years, and there will be turbulence.

Come to kpft.org or @KPFTHouston this September 10 and 11 , or later on archive.kpft.org, to immerse yourself in the infinite, from the Andromeda Galaxy to a strand of DNA. Quincy Jones takes us Walking in Space, with a second meditation by the Quiet Earth Orchestra. The sermon concludes Tom Sawyer.

Tom Sawyer is lost in a cave on the Sept 4-5 service of the Church of the Infinite on @KPFTHouston, with a homily by Erik Loomis. Musical meditations by Eric Coates and Olivier Messaien. Musical diversity includes Béla Fleck, Pat Savant, Benny Carter, and Joe Ely. Find us on archive.kpft.org.

The week of August 28, we meditate on the infinite with the Grateful Dead, and again in the second hour with a tribute to Eddie Palmieri who recently found his final resting place in the infinite. Tom Sawyer resumes as our sermon. Find the service on archive.kpft.org.

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The church service of the infinite that drops August 21 on @KPFTHouston and kpft.org returns to the roots with a visit to Deep Thought as well as musings from The Chief Prophet of the Church, Douglas Adams. Our Meditations feature Smashing Pumpkins, Collective Soul, and the Louis Bellson Big Band.

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The church service of the infinite that drops August 20-21 on @KPFTHouston and kpft.org returns to the roots with a visit to Deep Thought and musings from The Chief Prophet of the Church, Douglas Adams. Our Meditations feature Smashing Pumpkins, Collective Soul, and the Louis Bellson Big Band.

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Catch up to the August 13-14 service on @KPFTHouston and kpft.org as Tom Sawyer digs for treasure. The Incredible String Band accompanies our first meditation. In the second hour we honor Flaco Jimenez, who recently found his final resting place in the infinite.

With the August 6-7 service on @KPFTHouston, the Church hears more of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer. The first hour's meditation on the LP side features the Youngbloods, and in the second hour we Calypso. Among others, BB King and Willie, the Count, Weather Report, and Traffic help out.

The wisdom of Charles Ives

Do I have this maxim right?
Children should be obscene and not absurd.

The service that dropped July 31 on @kpfthouston and at archive.kpft.org finds Scott Fitzgerald's Offshore Pirate's romantic tryst thwarted by the arrival of a revenue boat.
Meditations are provided by Symphony North of Houston and by Ancient Future.

Tom Lehrer found his final resting place in the infinite this week. A brilliant mathemusician. We will all sing a Te Deum when we see that ICBM.

@kpfthouston.bsky.social This week's service (dropped July 23-24 at archive.kpft.org) follows F. Scott Fitzgerald's Offshore Pirate out to sea. A big band accompaniment to meditate on the infinite seems fitting.
In our second meditation, a young Sergei Rachmaninov channels Dvorak and Tchaikovsky.

The July 17 service of the Church of the Infinite features a Dominus vobiscum, a Domine, Salvum, Silver Dew On the Blue Grass, Hiroshige's Cat, and The Offshore Pirate by F Scott Fitzgerald. These sounds will echo through the cosmos on KPFT.ORG, and #KPFTHoustonTX Radio for Peace and nowhere else.

I accidentally dropped off the radar for a bit. Visit archive.kpft.org for the July 10 show to find a lovely short story by HG Wells, a meditation by the Davitts and the Pogues, a children's story by L Frank Baum, and a meditation on movie-like music including The Magnificent Seven.

The July 2-3 service of the Church of the Infinite on #KPFTHoustonTX 90.1FM (and KPFT.ORG outside the gravity well of Houston) concludes our reading from The Book of a Thousand and One Nights.
Lots of great music and meditations on serendipitous piano segues and jazz from two 50's television shows.

Our second hour's meditation on the infinite will mash together orchestrations for wind instruments and percussion of Mussorgskii's Pictures at an Exhibition by Brent Fischer and Elgar Howarth.

The seven Djinnis that will appear at your command during this week's service when you visit KPFT.ORG or #KPFTHoustonTX 90.1FM will assist in a reading from the Richard Burton translation of The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night.