Mathilda’s solo
An evening pause:
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
What happens when you put a koosh ball in liquid nitrogen?
An evening pause: “Theories are nice, but the proof is in the experiment.”
Issy Emeney – Appalachian Flatfooting
An evening pause: Issy Emeney doing some Appalachian flatfooting.
Boney M – Rivers of Babylon
An evening pause: From 1978, though the lyrics are a bit older.
Henry Dagg – Somewhere over the rainbow
An evening pause: And now for something truly silly.
Japanese Dragon Painter
An evening pause: A hand-painted work of art in less than nine minutes.
Candide: Make Our Garden Grow: Bernstein at 70
An evening pause: The finale of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide. Just before the song begins, Candide says this:
We will not think noble, because we are not noble. We will not live in perfect harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We can only promise to do our best, and to live out our lives. Dear God, that is all we can promise in truth. Marry me, Cunegonde.
Edwin McCain – I’ll Be
An evening pause:
April Fools – Math Class Shadow
An evening pause: Strange things happen on April 1, even in a boring math class.
The Muppets – Bohemian Rhapsody
An evening pause: A very talented actor once told me that a great deal of all comedy is based on contrast, on juxtaposing extreme opposites in unexpected ways.
The Black Stallion
An evening pause: The central sequence from the 1979 movie, The Black Stallion, when the shipwrecked boy Alec succeeds in taming the shipwrecked Arabian horse. The combination of Carmine Coppola’s music and Caleb Deschanel’s photography in this sequence is unmatched.
Richard Feynman – The beauty of a flower from a scientist’s perspective
An evening pause: The beauty of a flower from a scientist’s perspective.
The Statler Brothers – Flowers On The Wall
An evening pause:
How to make a potato gun
An evening pause: News you can use!
Crossing the Wabash Cannonball Bridge
An evening pause: Driving across the Wabash Cannonball Bridge going from Indiana to Illinois. The bridge is single lane, with a wooden deck, and over a hundred years old.
What’s really cool is how the driver is able to drive while holding his camera overhead through his sun roof.
Wrecking Crew Orchestra
An evening pause: An entertaining combination of engineering, lighting, and dance.
Ennio Morricone: Gabriel’s Oboe and theme from Cinema Paradiso
An evening pause:
Chet Atkins – Mr. Sandman
An evening pause: From 1954.
Celtic Harp Orchestra – Morrison’s Jig
An evening pause: Here’s some more harp, this time played in a way you’ve never heard it by the Celtic Harp Orchestra.
Anne Postic – Celtic Harp at Lorient in 2008
An evening pause: Anne Postic jiving on the harp.