Shania Twain & Alison Krauss – Forever And For Always
An evening pause:
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Kristin Chenoweth – Glitter and Be Gay
An evening pause: From Leonard Bernstein’s comic opera Candide. Watch Cunégonde struggle with the possibility that she might no longer be poor.
Hat tip Danae.
Cara Dillon – P Stands For Paddy
An evening pause: Live performance 2006.
Groucho Marx – You Bet Your Life, May 12, 1955
An evening pause: Instead of relying on the modern boring use of bathroom humor and obscenities, watch Groucho make everyone laugh by simply reacting to circumstances in exactly right way.
Hat tip Danae.
Planxty – The Blacksmith
An evening pause: From their 2004 reunion.
Naturally 7 – Ready or Not
An evening pause: Recorded live.
Hat tip to Frank.
Itzhak Perlman – Theme from Schindler’s List
An evening pause: He plays this with the verge and style of the best bluegrass fiddlers.
Hat tip again to Phil Berardelli.
Harpo Marx – I Love Lucy (May 9, 1955)
An evening pause: A classic, and even better if you are familiar with the Marx Brothers movies.
Hat tip to Phil Berardelli.
Béla Fleck – Big Country
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Soprillo & Tubax Contrabass Saxophone Duet
An evening pause: I don’t know if it’s possible to two instruments to be farther apart in range. Yet they work together here very nicely. Nigel Wood plays the soprillo while Jim Cheek plays the tubax.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
How a woman gets undressed on television in Italy
An evening pause: Believe me, this has everything to do with engineering.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Kate Rusby – Who will sing me lullabies?
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Ennio Morricone – Gabriel´s Oboe (clarinet version)
An evening pause: Performed live 2011 with Sabine Grofmeier on the clarinet. From the 1986 film The Mission.
Linsey Pollak – Carrot clarinet
An evening pause: A nice mix of art, food, and engineering.
Ann Miller – Too Darn Hot
An evening pause: From the 1953 film Kiss Me Kate. Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Maintaining a high voltage line
An evening pause: Stick around to the end. It is worth it.
Hat tip Tim Vogel.
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer – Hoedown
An evening pause: Performed live at the Nassau Coliseum in 1978. What makes this particular video intriguing is that it focuses entirely on what the drummer is doing.
The Muppets & Rita Moreno – Fever
An evening pause: My first thought was: how can she keep a straight face?
Hat tip to Phil Berardelli.
Death Valley’s moving rocks
An evening pause: The detective story that solved the mystery of the moving rocks of Death Valley.
For a century, these eerie rocks and their long, graceful trails have stumped visitors and scientists. The boulders of black dolomite appear to move on their own, sliding uphill across the playa’s flat lakebed. The trails are the only evidence the rocks move. No one has ever seen them set sail.
Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused To Sing
An evening pause: Animation by Jessica Cope.
Hat tip Jack O’Leary.