John Williams – Dry Your Tears, Áfrika
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
The New Periodic Table Song
An evening pause: Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Mason Williams & Deborah Henson-Conant – Classical Gas
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Chris Botti & Sting – Bourbon Street
An evening pause: As Danae notes, with a bit of Satchmo thrown in by Sting.
Tom Lehrer – The Irish Ballad
An evening pause: Recorded live, September 5, 1967, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Having some fun with the old folk ballads.
Hat tip Danae.
Bridge Girder Erection Mega Machine
An evening pause: More proof that modern engineering can make almost anything seem easy.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
MTNS – Lost track of time
An evening pause: The song, which is really nice, is really just background music to a beautiful video of what it is like to fly fish in Montana. As always, I want to note the sophistication of the human engineering and design that makes this activity possible. It is as beautiful as the countryside and the music.
Hat tip Rocco.
Mark Knopfler – Last Exit To Brooklyn
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Ben-Hur – The Chariot Race
An evening pause: This clip is actually only the last half of the chariot race scene from Ben-Hur (1959), still one of the greatest action sequences ever put on film. And not only was it on film, but they did it without any computer animation. What you see is real, real horses and real chariots and real actors and real very skilled and brave stunt men. (See this short film on how the even earlier 1925 silent-era epic film Ben-Hur version was made, in a similar manner.)
If you get the chance, watch the 1959 film. Truly a great Hollywood epic.
Hat tip Phil Berardelli, author of the new edition of Phil’s Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime.
Real clam digging
An evening pause: Rocco had suggested this short video about the joys of going out and digging clams. I prefer the video below, of a real clam doing its own digging, because it shows us something we normally don’t see and that is really amazing. Who would have thought that a clam could bury itself so quickly, with a single digging foot?
Ella Fitzgerald – Angel Eyes
An evening pause: Another nice B&W 1957 performance.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Joaquin Rodrigo – Concierto de Aranjuez, 2nd movement
An evening pause: One of my favorite pieces of music, performed by Xuefei Yang and Barcelona Symphony.
Hat tip Danae.