Stefan Langer – Compilation of glider low passes over beach, lake, and mountains
An evening pause: So, what will you be doing this weekend?
Hat tip Cotour.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Marshall Crenshaw – Whenever You’re On My Mind
A evening pause: Performed live 1985.
Hat tip Ferris Akel.
John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John – Summer Nights
An evening pause: From the 1980 film Grease.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Veritasium – The Ames Window
An evening pause: A wonderful demonstration that one should never assume your first glance is right.
Jonasquin – If Stayin’ Alive Had Been Written in 16th Century
An evening pause: Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Peter Schickele performs Schickele and P.D.Q. Bach
An evening pause: A performance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson from 1987.
Hat tip Alex Gimarc.
Sotheby’s – Two impossible watches that shouldn’t exist
A evening pause: The subject of watches and time, possibly linked to astronomy, seems fitting on this first day of the new year, when we start a new number in our lives.
Hat tip Cotour.
Bing Crosby – Let’s Start the New Year Right
An evening pause: From the 1942 film Holiday Inn. Stay with this after the song for a truly spectacular dance number by Fred Astaire, dancing as a New Year’s Eve drunk with Marjorie Reynolds.
Paolo Ercoli – Song for a winter’s night
A evening pause: A nice rendition of the Gordon Lightfoot song on an instrument called the squareneck dobro.
Hat tip Cotour.
Rita Hayworth – Steal a Show
A eveningpause: From the 1947 musical Down to Earth, where Hayworth places the goddess of dance, who comes down from heaven to save the show.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Marula Eugster Rigolo – One feather
An evening pause: A nice way to close out the season of miracles.
Hat tip John Jossy.
Brigham Young University Choir & Orchestra – Oh Come All Ye Faithful
An evening pause: I hope all my Christian readers had a wonderful and joyous Christmas, from your Jewish but very secular host. With good will to all!
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Kathy Mattea – Mary did you know
An evening pause: Another reprise, this time from 2020. As I wrote then: “This song honoring Jesus I think really speaks of every child born on Earth, and how every parent should see them. As Wordsworth said, they come ‘trailing clouds of glory.'”
Did you know that your baby boy has walked where angels trod?
When you kissed your little baby then you kissed the face of god.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra – Christmas Eve/Sarajevo
An evening pause: I posted this Judd Clark suggestion previously in December 2023, but Judd sent it to me again and I agree, it deserves a reprise. It reminds us that despite all the craziness that has happened in the world in the past half century, children still see wonderful things we have forgotten exist.
Handel – Pastoral Symphony from Messiah
An evening pause: One of the most beautiful sections of Handel’s masterpiece, often missed because it is quiet and gentle in tone.
Toilet Cat, The Kiffness, & Juzzie Smith – Christmas Blues
An evening pause: Words escape me.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Celtic Woman – Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
An evening pause: Performed live 2013. I know this song is a bit over-played this time of year, but this performance brings a freshness to it well worth experiencing. And it is about what Christmas actually celebrates.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Geoff Castellucci – I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
An evening pause: Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Elahn Zetlin – Hanukkah in Jerusalem
An evening pause: Music by Hicham Chahidi.
As I watched this I could not help think once again of the Jewish saying that practically describes all Jewish holidays: “They tried to kill us. We won. Let’s eat!”
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Melinda Kathleen Reese – O Come O Come Emmanuel
An evening pause: As has become my own tradition, I always begin the Christmas/Hanukkah season’s evening pauses with this particular piece, because it not only speaks to both religions, it is amazingly beautiful to hear.
The video replays her singing the same thing three times. There is a good reason, as she almost appears to have begun singing as a lark, and the acoustics of the church astonish her. The repeats help bring out this amazing quality.