A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
An evening pause: Performed by the Boston Pops orchestra.
Hat tip to Phil Berardelli, author of Phil’s Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime. As Phil noted to me, “The audience seems to love it.” I think many of them had seen the film, and when they heard that first note couldn’t help feeling a deep down bit of squeamish nervousness about what it signified.
An evening pause: Gratitude requires humbleness. We need more of both in today’s world.
Hat tip Insominous.
A evening pause: Nice relaxing music to end the week, set to some hypnotic images of the Earth taken from ISS.
Hat tip Insominious.
An evening pause: This will make an interesting contrast with the previous two evening pauses.
Hat tip t-dub.
An evening pause: This is a lovely performance, but I’m not sure which is cuter, the kids singing or the adults in the audience urging them on.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
An evening pause: Cover of a Leonard Cohen song, performed live January 2012.
Hat tip Lee Stevenson.
An evening pause: A look at the cattle business, from the inside.
Hat tip Sayomara.
An evening pause: Hat tip Insomnious.
An evening pause: Hat tip Andrew_W.
An evening pause: A bluegrass version of a Beyonce hit.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
An evening pause: During last week’s failed attempts to explain the concept of doubt and skepticism in science to a global warming adherent (which begins here and also in the comments of this post), Edward Thelen provided a link to the video below of one of Richard Feynman’s lectures. I thought it entertaining enough to be an evening pause, and educational enough that more people should see it. Listen especially near the middle when he begins to talk about the uselessness of theories that are vague and poorly defined. It will strike a nerve if you have been paying attention to the climate debates during the past two decades.
An evening pause: A beautiful cover of the Yiruma song.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman
