Joan Baez – Diamonds And Rust
An evening pause: Recorded live in France, 1977.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Tim Conway – Dentist sketch
An evening pause: I’ve posted pieces from the Carol Burnett Show before, but it has been a long while. Time for more.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Hayley Westenra – For The Fallen
An evening pause: On this November 11, Armistice Day.
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.
Nicole Atkins – Bird on a Wire
An evening pause: Hat tip Dane.
Andreas Scholl performs Handel’s Ombra mai fu
An evening pause: Some music is just so beautiful it takes your breath away.
Buddy Greene – Classical Harmonica Medley
An evening pause: Hat tip Frank Kelly.
Victor Borge and Marilyn Mulvey – Hands Off!
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Sha-Na – I’m Gonna Knock On Your Door
An evening pause: Sometimes all one really wants is a silly pop song.
Tina Dico & Helgi Jonsson – River
An evening pause: Hat tip to Danae.
Martin Brest – Hot Tomorrows
An evening pause: Hat tip again to Phil Berardelli, author of Phil’s Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime. As Phil wrote to me, this scene is “the sensational finale from Martin Brest’s NYU student film, Hot Tomorrows. Brest, who went on to direct Beverly Hills Cop, Midnight Run and Scent of a Woman, broke all the rules in scrounging every resource he could find to make this 73-minute tragi-comic riff on the subject of death.”
Makes for a perfect Halloween evening pause.
An aside: Long ago, when I was in the movie business, I worked with many of the people who helped Brest make this film, and can say without doubt that he scored the best crew one could imagine finding for a student production.
Kitaro with 12 Girls Band – Matsuri
An evening pause:
Bond – Viva
An evening pause: Performed live in Japan. Proves beyond doubt that Vivaldi had rhythm.