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An evening pause:
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Gentaro Takada – Concierto De Aranjuez
An evening pause: The adagio from Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez.
Julia Sweeney – “Sex Ed” monologue
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Duo Minasov – Quick Change
An evening pause: How about some magic?
Fifty years ago: Alan Shepard’s suborbital flight
An evening pause: Fifty years ago today, America’s response to Gagarin and the Soviets, Alan Shepard’s suborbital flight.
Or as he said as he lifted off, “The clock has started.”
The flight actually lasted 15 minutes 22 seconds. Though only a fourth the size of Gagarin’s much bigger Vostok capsule, the Mercury capsule was steerable. During the flight Shepard adjusted the capsule’s pitch, roll, and yaw, proving that humans could pilot a spacecraft manually.
El Condor Pasa – Chinese E-Wu and Flute w/ Peruvian flute
An evening pause: El Condor Pasa, played by a Peruvian flute and a Chinese E-Wu and Flute. As the youtube webpage notes, “This is possibly the best-known Peruvian song worldwide, partly due to a cover version by Simon and Garfunkel in 1970 on their Bridge over Troubled Water album, which is called “El Condor Pasa (If I Could)” in full.”
The Oh of Pleasure – Ray Lynch
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Introducing the book
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Sondheim – Finishing the hat
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John Browning, part 4
An evening pause: The last part of “The Guns of John Browning” from Tales of the Gun.
The documentary correctly honors Browning for the quality of his designs and workmanship. To me, it is more important to honor him for making the weapons that allowed the United States to defend freedom in the twentieth century. Without these tools in the hands of our soldiers, the wars would have been longer and many more lives would have been lost. And worse, the fascists and Nazis and dictators might have won.
As George Bernard Shaw wrote in Major Barbara, “The people must have power.”
John Browning, part 3
An evening pause: Part 3 of 4 of “The Guns of John Browning” from Tales of the Gun.
John Browning, part 2
An evening pause: Part 2 of “The Guns of John Browning” from Tales of the Gun.