Happy Childhood Dance Ensemble – Kalinka
An evening pause: MORE young talent. Performed live 2020.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Jude Kofie – Rock The Casbah
An eveing pause: More young talent. This is different in that he improvises his own piano version based on only hearing a portion of the original.
Hat tip Cotour.
The Graystones & J8KE – Baker Street
An evening pause: Hat tip Mike Nelson, who adds, “by a group of kids that make me jealous as I never had ANY musical aptitude whatever.”
Ethel Merman – Anything Goes
An evening pause: From a 1954 television production.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Jay Leno’s Garage – Randy Grubb’s Decopods
An evening pause: “There is fun and there is stupid fun.”
Hat tip Cotour.
Dolly Parton, Stella Parton, & Cassie Parton – Break My Mind
An evening pause: Performed live on television 1970.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Billy Gibbons, Kingfish Ingram, & Orianthi – La Grange
An evening pause: Performed live 2025, and beautifully directed by Gibbons as well.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Annie Lennox – There Must Be An Angel
An evening pause: Performed live 2006.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
Elmer Bernstein – To Kill A Mockingbird Suite
An evening pause: Performed live 2014 by the Beethoven Academy Orchestra with Sara Andon on the flute.
Some movies are made special because of their score, and I think this applies to the 1962 film, To Kill a Mockingbird. It is a superb work of art, but it rises above many comparable films due to the music that Elmer Bernstein wrote for it. His suite only gives a hint of its effectiveness, in the movie.
Johnny Cash & June Carter – Jackson
An evening pause: Performed live 1967.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Abraham Lincoln – a tragic and heroic life
An evening pause: To celebrate the birthday today one of America’s greatest man, a short biography.
The video below does a really fine job in a very short time. Lincoln’s life was filled with heart-breaking tragedy, far more than most Americans today realize. Yet the man endured, so that he ended up changing his nation so that it finally honored fully its founding documents. As he said so eloquently in 1863:
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Tom Goes Nomad – How Victorians Built This Lighthouse at Sea
An evening pause: Built fast and cheaply, despite real cutting edge engineering challenges, at the turn of the 19th century.
Hat tip Cotour.