A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
An evening pause: A cover of a song from the end credits of the 2003 The Lord of the Rings film, The Return of the King..
Hat tip Alton Blevins, whose gmail inbox is filled and thus cannot receive any emails from me, or anyone. Alton: Clean out your inbox!
An evening pause: A fun look at the physics and scale of the many spinning space stations proposed by science fiction writers over the decades. None of this is real, since sadly we have done only a few very inconclusive efforts in space to test this engineering.
Hat tip John Hunt.
An evening pause: Performed live 2012 by the Hungarian Symphony Orchestra.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: Performed live 2012, but this was not before an audience but was simply their sound check performance beforehand to make sure the microphones were all at the right level to mix properly.
Hat tip to Ferris Akel, who adds “by a band that always took soundchecks very seriously.”
An evening pause: A bit of contrast from yesterday’s pause. Performed live 2022 by the Symphony Orchestra & Grand Choir of the Collegium Musicum Berlin, Donka Miteva conducting.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: If you haven’t yet got up from your weekend partying, this will do it. Performed live sometime in the early 1970s.
Hat tip Alec Gimarc.
An evening pause: If your weekend hobby is art restoration, this is a video you have got to see. And if not, you should watch anyway because the repair he does is truly breathtaking.
Hat tip Cotour.
An evening pause: Stay with it as the opening is rarely included.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: Performed live 1974.
Hat tip Cotour.
An evening pause: For this and all coming New Years. Performed live 2016.
An evening pause: A song for the coming new year by J.S. Bach. The words speak strongly to the leadership we choose, but they also speak strongly to us, for the choices we make. Our leaders can be bad or good, but either way the fault in the end in our Constitutional government lies with us, not them.
An evening pause: As we are in the middle of Hanukkah, and it is also Friday, here’s a hilarious send-off for the weekend, celebrating the holiday and the Jewish impact on American culture. Performed live 2002 on Saturday Night Live.
