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We had a blast last week seeing you all at our Episode 18 livestream in our "All About Aesthetics" series! This one is a deep dive by your host, Mitch Hampton , and we appreciate you all stopping by. Link to watch here, now: https://www.youtube.com/live/hFc8JPTu-IA?si=6vbIHMw7DyeUuJKU Thanks as well to our replay crew and here it is to enjoy! Please like, share and subscribe as we build...

The third episode of our John Updike Rabbit Series will focus on Updike's chronicling of the transitions and transformations of American culture, as represented by his characters, of the 1970s through the 1980s.  As always the focus will be on prose style and how style connects to larger values in the novels. #pennsylvania #1950s #1960s #1970s #1980s #1990s #2000s #worldwar2 #sexualpolitics #f...

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Inside this Episode with Mitch Hampton I read an enormous amount of books in a given year, partially for the great pleasure it creates in me and partly as my project of lifelong learning, itself probably identical in pleasure. Verba's work on Violeta Parra - one of the giants in Latin American music in general and  Chilean music in particular as well as a leading visual artist and scholar - was on...

Listeners, thank you so so very much for making our "Valentine's Living Room Concert" last night so special and a hearty welcome to all our new subscribers! We will be back with our usual podcast episodes this month and more music soon. Leave a comment if you can to let us know where you are joining us from! And thanks to our replay crew- you are the best! #ColePorter #piano #music #...

Season 6: "The Amy Pike Show” Helene Recovery Series  Inside this Episode with Mitch Hampton: One of the many themes of our podcast is the act of human creation itself, in all of its myriad forms, and how humans always already are creating in specific circumstances.  Amy Pike, a jewelry maker, is one of the artists in our community who was affected by the Hurricane Helene in the Fall of 2024. Whil...

Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act, allows the unlicensed use of copyrighted materials for purposes such as: Commentary: Using parts of a news article, scientific paper, or medical journal for educational purposes. In this stream I will share my love for Freddie Hubbard and one of his albums in particular: "Keep Your Soul Together from 1973 ." More on this special livestream event, h...

Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act, allows the unlicensed use of copyrighted materials for purposes such as: Commentary: Using parts of a news article, scientific paper, or medical journal for educational purposes. This is an arts and culture, education podcast. Listeners, thank you for joining us this past Friday for our annual New Year's livestream featuring your host, Mitch Hampton! Please...

In this, our second episode in the series on John Updike's "Rabbit" novels I continue with in depth discussions of his magnum with special emphasis on Rabbi Run and Rabbit Redux and Updike's overall prose style. This series will continue into the New Year with multiple episodes so check back for more info! More about this ongoing multi part series, here:In addition to being one of the giants of tw...

Inside this episode with Mitch Hampton This episode is an exciting one for us in that it contains many firsts: for one it our first show featuring a gallery and for another it is the first with two guests who are also a married couple. Among the many reasons for me creating and then hosting our podcast is that I was most fortunate to grow up in the New York City of the 1970s and 80s, in which I wa...

DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. On Sunday December 15th I perform an all solo piano concert in a style somewhere in between a tradit...

Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act, allows the unlicensed use of copyrighted materials for purposes such as: Commentary: Using parts of a news article, scientific paper, or medical journal for educational purposes. Thanks to everyone who joined us for episode 16 of our ongoing "All About Aesthetics" series! Give it a share and pass it along with us! We will be back very soon with live music, e...

Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act, allows the unlicensed use of copyrighted materials for purposes such as: Commentary: Using parts of a news article, scientific paper, or medical journal for educational purposes. In addition to being one of the giants of twentieth century literature, John Updike is a personal favorite I have been reading since childhood.  While I briefly mentioned an excerpt...

It is often too easy for us to be slow to acknowledge that there are those artists and performers among us who are unusual in their breadth of skills, sometimes expressing these in more than one career within a single lifetime. Brit Whittle  is certainly emblematic of this phenomenon in the arts. He has had at least two careers: one in the worlds of acting and one in the seminary and ministry. I f...

#pennsylvania #pittsburgh #1950s This will be the livestream on this wonderful book by Annie Dillard that was originally scheduled on September 27 but postponed due to the storm. On this book lunch we take the deepest dive into Annie Dillard's 1980s masterpiece "An American Childhood". More on this livestream event, here: I chose Annie Dillard's book for two rather different reasons. One, admitted...

Thanks to everyone who joined us for y "All About Aesthetics" livestream - Episode 14! We roamed far and wide in this one with new music, Susan Sontag, 70s album covers, bespoke fashion and more! Never a dull moment here. Please share this with us, leave a comment and thanks for helping us to grow forward. You are the best part of what we do! Link to the channel we featured clips from, here: https...

#jazz #legacy #soundtracks #podcast #interlochen #arts #birthday # Join your host Mitch Hampton as he celebrates his birthday from the grounds of his wonderful Alma Mater, Interlochen School for the Arts! Note: you may hear some wind- this is a remote pop up so consider it ambience ! Buy Mitch a Birthday Coffee! account.venmo.com/u/Mitch-Hampton-1 Our podcast is a comprehensive examination of all...

Enjoy episode 15 of our "All About Aesthetics" series featuring #Amtrack ! "Travel in the US" . #amtrack #amtraktrains #mitchhampton #podcast #journey #travel #aethetics Join Mitch for a unique aesthetics series #15 episode on the road , live from Amtrack! More about this stream and on going series, here: This fifteenth episode of our “All About Aesthetics” series will be the first time I do an ep...

#MitchHampton #Interlochen #piano #MitchHampton #Interlochen #piano #aesthetics #podcast Folks! This is a quick pop up stream from your host, Mitch Hampton as he visits his alma mater at Interlochen! This school is at the heart of Mitch's artistry and ethos. Our regular programming will resume soon- as you know our show is based in the Asheveille/ Weaverville NC area in the heart of where storm He...

Season 6:  “The Wendy Steiner Show: Women, Beauty and Choice”  This will be the second time Wendy Steiner has been on our podcast - on the occasion of her most timely yet perennial book The Beauty Of Choice .  At the conclusion of our episode I was treated to a viewing of some of her paintings which are truly beautiful, one aspect of her immense talents with which I had been unaware, even after re...

Inside this Episode with host, Mitch Hampton Christoph Schülren , one of the guests to whom I was so kindly introduced by pianist Beth Levin , will be the first time on our podcast that a musician whose professional career is devoted to the art and practice of conducting has been featured.  I thought it indispensable for many reasons to feature him: musical conducting is ubiquitous in many styles...

Our guest Aaron J. Leonard is most unusual for an historian, or indeed any kind of guest. For a great deal of his adult life he was a member of arguably the most radical political organization in the United States, the Revolutionary Communist Party, something which he and many now admit is a cult.  His unique experiences as a thoroughgoing activist gives me great insight not only into the history...

DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. In this the 13th episode I introduce the topic of purely instrumental music while also discussing wo...

This episode will conclude our series on Hannah Arendt's last book. Unlike Hannah Arendt, who passed before she could finish her book, we will conclude the series on Life Of The Mind. Look for some archival footage and other surprises in the episode. While I am sad to see this series go, I am anticipating a good, deep dive when we enter the world of Annie Dillard's An American Childhood in...

The sixth episode of our series on Hannah Arendt's Life Of The Mind continues with the discussion of volume 2, Willing, in which religious intellectual history is discussed as well as much else! Season 6 , “Book Lunch”, Hannah Arendt's The Life Of The Mind , Volume 2, “Willing” This, the fifth episode of our miniseries on Hannah Arendt's The Life Of The Mind , will mark the beginning o...