Don Williams – Lord I hope this day is good
A evening pause: A humble prayer, with a nice beat.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Abby Scott – The Way You Look Tonight
An evening pause: The original by Fred Astaire, with Ginger Rogers, is incomparable. This performance however is a superb.
Hat tip Danae.
The Stringspace Orchestra – Young & Beautiful
Sissel Kyrkjebø – Summertime
An evening pause: Performed live on Swedish television in 2018.
Hat tip Danae.
In honor of April 1st
A evening pause: Just watch.
André Rieu – Hava Nagila
An evening pause: From the Wikipedia page:
Havah Nagilah…was composed in 1915 in Ottoman Palestine, when Hebrew was being revived as a spoken language after falling into disuse in this form for approximately 1,700 years, following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE and the Bar Kokhba revolt in 132–136 CE. For the first time, Jews were being encouraged to speak Hebrew as a common language, instead of Yiddish, Arabic, Ladino, or other regional Jewish languages.
The lyrics reflect these events:
Let’s rejoice
Let’s rejoice
Let’s rejoice and be happy
Let’s sing
Let’s sing
Let’s sing and be happy
Awake, awake, my brothers!
Awake my brothers with a happy heart
Awake, my brothers, awake, my brothers!
With a happy heart
May we all sing with as much joy.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Magali Barbé – Strange Beasts
An evening pause: The future appears it will become a very lonely and isolated place, very divorced from reality.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
N’Deye & The Three Generations – Man Sized Job
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn – And Am I Born to Die
An evening pause: Listen to the words. They ask the most fundamental questions of existence.
Hat tip Tom Wright.
Ansambl Black Angels – 5 elements (Earth, Water, Air, Fire and Love)
An evening pause: Stay with it. The title will become clear, and you will then want to stay with the end.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Looking at LPs, CDs, and DVDs with an electron microscope
An evening pause: This video is even more interesting than my title above, in that the guy making it used his electron microscope to make an animation showing what it looks like when a record needle is running through the tracks of a record. Most cool.
And since vinyl appears to actually be making a comeback, I think that even the younger members of my readership will know what a record is.
Hat tip Thomas Biggar.
Understanding Different Types of Glass
An evening pause: Time for some technology. It is amazing the amount of really smart designs that are hidden in plain sight.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Burnside High School Senior Chorale – Let the river run
An evening pause: Composed by Carly Simon.
Hat tip Danae.
David Lanz & Paul Speer – Lento984
An evening pause: From their Natural States music video album released 1985.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Pink Floyd – Us and Them
A evening pause: Recorded live 1988. The song’s general hostility to war is an example of one of the greatest hallmarks of civilization. To make believe however that war is never necessary is to bow to those things that wish to destroy civilization, which is a most delicate thing.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
PINK FLOYD – us and them – live delicate sound of thunder 1988 – YouTube from STEVE MCLEAN on Vimeo.
Timestorm Films – South Pole: Night in Antarctica
An evening pause: For those, like myself, who have never seen the aurora.
Hat tip Steve Golson.
SOUTH POLE | NIGHT IN ANTARCTICA from Martin Heck | Timestorm Films on Vimeo.
David Gates – If
An evening pause: Performed live on television in 1975.
Hat tip Danae.
Alanis Morissette – Thank U
A evening pause: I just wish she would make it easier to understand her words.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Heartstrings Cello Ensemble – For the Beauty of the Earth
An evening pause: Composed by John Rutter.
Hat tip Danae.
I am as always looking for suggestions for Evening Pauses. If you’ve seen something you like and have never suggested something before, mention this in a comment here. Don’t post the suggestion in your comment. I will email you for it.
I like live performances, cool engineering, and quirky things. Variety is the watchword. I also tend to avoid politics and items about space exploration, as the evening pause is intended as a pause from that stuff.
David Byrne & St Vincent – Road to Nowhere
An evening pause: Hat tip Wayne DeVette.