A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
An evening pause: From Mozart’s The Magic Flute, performed by the Royal Opera. If the closed captions are off, turn them on, as they provide a translation.
As “the fat lady” has now sung, we can go off and enjoy the weekend.
Hat tip Blair Ivey.
An evening pause: How about some silliness, dressed up in some very nice music.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
An evening pause: For a background review, essential for understanding the legal tangles, see these earlier evening pauses from 2012, 2014, and 2023.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
An evening pause: The guitarist, who goes by the handle of guitaro5000, goes around and asks strangers if they want to sing something. This example epitomizes in a nutshell America.
Hat tip Cotour.
An evening pause: From the 1944 movie Broadway Rhythm. Makes me want to go to a potluck picnic this weekend.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
An evening pause: Performed live 1985.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Readers: I am in need of evening pause suggestions. If you’ve sent me suggestions in the past you know the drill. More suggestions are welcome! If you haven’t and want to suggest something, say so in the comments below, but DON’T provide the link to your suggestion or mention it. I will contact you to send you the guidelines so you can send it to me to schedule.
An evening pause: To really appreciate this skit, you really would have had to have spent hours playing early coin-operated video games in the 1980s and 1990s.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
An evening pause: From the 1942 film Casablanca, still one of the greatest movies ever made.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
An evening pause: From the 1956 film, Meet Me in Las Vegas. The dancing is great, but I really think Sammy Davis makes the piece with his singing.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: There are some mysteries that will always remain unsolved. And this one is one of the strangest.
Hat tip Cotour.
An evening pause: The Rodgers and Hammenstein song from The Sound of Music, performed live on the Ed Sullivan Show, 1959.
Makes an interesting contrast with yesterday’s pause.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
An evening pause: This 1940 short film won an Academy Award for best one-reel short. It provides a nice and witty demonstration of the first technology that allowed very high speed slow motion movies to be made.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
An eveing pause: More young talent. This is different in that he improvises his own piano version based on only hearing a portion of the original.
Hat tip Cotour.
An evening pause: Hat tip Mike Nelson, who adds, “by a group of kids that make me jealous as I never had ANY musical aptitude whatever.”
