Sting – Fields of Gold
An evening pause: Performed live in Italy on September 11, 2001, at the very day the World Trade Center came down.
Hat tip Rex Ridenoure.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Alison Balsom and the Balsom Ensemble – excerpt
An evening pause: An example of some Baroque music as it actually sounded when written, using instruments of the time. This is a follow-up to the evening pause last week.
Sean Mann – Little Wing
An evening pause: Worth contrasting with the playing of Bach by Andrés Segovia, posted as an evening pause last week. Very different music but equally unique and beautiful. And the talent to play it is as equally magnificent.
Hat tip Cotour.
Yo-Yo Ma – Bach’s Cello Suite No.1: Prelude
The Hollies – Bus Stop
Alison Balsom – Introducing the Baroque Trumpet
An evening pause: Another music history lesson to start the weekend. As she says, listening to baroque music played on this instrument explains a great deal about that music, and definitely tells you what that music was expected to sound like when composed, compared to playing it on modern instruments. Far more haunting, a word I would never have used to describe Baroque music before.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand
Andrés Segovia – J S Bach: Sarabande & Gavotte en Rondeau
Sam & Dave – Soul Man
Marcin Patrzale – 1st movement of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, on a Guitar
Watching a Falcon 9 liftoff from an airplane passenger seat
An evening pause: I think this launch was in December 2022, from Cape Canaveral. Makes a great start for the weekend.
Hat tip Greg the Geologist.
La casualidad de ir en un avión justo cuando en Cabo Cañaveral se está lanzando el SpaceX Falcon 9. 🚀
📹: ᶜʰᵉᶠᵖⁱⁿᵏᵖʳ ᵀᴷ pic.twitter.com/aGA0twz81r
— Imágenes Históricas (@HistorieEnFotos) December 16, 2022
Heart – Silver Wheels/Crazy On You
An evening pause: Performed live either 1978 or 1979. For Valentine’s Day tomorrow.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Hal Holbrook – Lincoln’s second inaugural address, in honor of his birthday
An evening pause: I last posted a recreation in April 2017. Today, on Lincoln’s birthday, I present a recreation by Hal Holbrook, performed live on the Ed Sullivan Show on February 13, 1966.
As I wrote in 2017, “Listen to the words, however. This is no pandering speech, as we routinely see today. It is hard, muscled, and honest, bluntly recognizing that all, from both sides of the Civil War, must pay for the scourge of slavery.”
Judy Garland – Old Man River
An evening pause: From the first episode of The Judy Garland Show, taped in June 1964 and aired December 1964.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
Cliff Richard – We Don’t Talk Anymore
Arthur Clarke in 1964 predicts the future in 2000
An evening pause: Something to ponder over the weekend. The video only includes two short clips from this 1964 BBC show, and thus picks two that have ended up to be largely right. And though Clarke’s predictions were not all right, he hit the mark an incredibly high number of times.
Hat tip John Jossy.
"The only thing we can be sure of about the future, is that it will be absolutely fantastic."#OnThisDay 1917: Writer, futurist and inventor Arthur C Clarke was born.
In 1964, he appeared on Horizon and gave some astonishing predictions about the future. pic.twitter.com/ID0X7idWyy
— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) December 16, 2023
Michael Nesmith – Joanne
Life in a nutshell
An evening pause: This is actually a very old fable, but the visuals here underline its meaning. And I think it is perfect for my birthday.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
This video explains "LIFE" in a nutshell..‼️ pic.twitter.com/nxY1ZNK4I3
— Manly Mentor (@manly_mentor) December 22, 2024
Curt & Diva Smith – Mad World
Barcelona Guitar Trio – Billie Jean
Fabio Pacucci – Newton’s three-body problem explained
Morgan James – Human
An evening pause: With Doug Wamble (guitar), Ron Mcbee (percussion), and Sam Reider (accordion). The song is by Rag’n’Bone Man.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Andrea Bocelli & Céline Dion – The Prayer
An evening pause: Performed live 2011.
Hat tip Alton Blevins, who needs to clean out his inbox, which is now so full all of my emails to him bounce.
Air Supply – Making Love Out of Nothing At All
An evening pause: Performed live 2013 in Hong Kong when it was still free. I wonder if the Chinese would allow an American band there now.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra – Lulle Lulle
An evening pause: Hat tip Judd Clark, who provides this translation:
O flower flower
O flower flower bouquet bouquet
I’m for you
I’m for you
I’m crazy for you
I’m crazy, I’m crazy
I’m crazy, this is trueWhere did you go that I was always on your mind
I’m dying from missing you because I cannot see you
Where did you go that I was always on your mind
I’m dying from missing you because I cannot see you
Anna Lapwood – How does a pipe organ actually work?
An evening pause: My readers recommend so many organ performances I decided to start the weekend with short but entertaining primer on how pipe organs work. As always, there are surprises. Our narrator was the organist on Monday’s evening pause.
Thomas Gabriel – Folsom Prison Blues
An evening pause: Hat tip Gary, who correctly notes that “Johnny Cash’s grandson sounds very much like him.”
MonaLisa Twins – Edelweiss
An evening pause: A nice cover of the Rogers & Hammerstein song from The Sound of Music (1965).
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Moniuszko School of Music Symphony Orchestra – Barber’s Adagio
Anna Lapwood – Hans Zimmer’s Cornfield Chase & Saint-Saëns’ Sinfonie #3 Organ finale
An evening pause: Performed live 2024. Seem celebratory enough for Inauguration Day.
Hat tip Alton Blevins, who also needs to clean out his full inbox so that he can receive emails. It has been full now for several weeks, and all emails to him thus bounce.