A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
An evening pause: By Tchaikovsky of course. Performed live December 2020. Note how no one is wearing masks or social distancing. Apparently the Ukraine had some common sense during that time of madness.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: The yacht, the Tally Ho, had won an important race in 1927 in Great Britain. The goal is to get this work done so it can compete in 2027 in a similar race in Britain that it won one hundred years previously.
Though after watching the video, it seems this is more like a complete rebuild from scratch rather than a restoration.
Hat tip Cotour.
An evening pause: Performed live December 7, 2024 for the reopening of Notre Dame in Paris. Gustavo Dudamel is the conductor, leading Olivier Latry and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: Performed live 1982.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Posted so late because I spent the weekend doing taxes (yuch), and forgot I needed to schedule evening pauses.
An evening pause: Actually Dovydas is a street performer who provides the background music and asks passersby if they want to sing something. Diane was listening to this across our house and I asked her if that was Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac. Nope, but about as good. The singer’s name is Brielle Anderson, as per the first comment on the youtube page.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
An evening pause: Some engineering history for the weekend. I know the title makes this sound boring, but it is worth watching, because it illustrates the incredible complexity of some of what we think are the simplest tools. I wonder if the engineers in the space business are thinking about these issues.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
An evening pause: Performed live 2018. Good music and playing, but the cameraman was clearly not listening to the music, as he often couldn’t find the person playing or singing.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: Performed live 2007. The guitar soloist opposite Beck is Tal Wilkenfeld.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
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.
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.
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.
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.
