David Gates – If
An evening pause: Performed live on television in 1975.
Hat tip Danae.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
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.
Väsen – Fanny
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Tommy Shaw – Blue Collar Man
An evening pause: A bit late, but here is tonight’s evening pause. With the Contemporary Youth Orchestra.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Andy Grammer – Honey, I’m Good
An evening pause: I like the sentiment: “I’ll stay true.”
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Mozart’s Naughty Notes
A evening pause: From the vimeo webpage: “Mozart illustrated the score for the Rondo from his Horn Concerto No.1 with a series of naughty notes and jokes aimed at his horn player friend, Joseph Leutgeb.”
Performed by the OAE orchestra, with Roger Montgomery on the horn.
Hat tip Dan Coovert.
Mozart's Naughty Notes from OAE on Vimeo.
5secondfilms – Missing
An evening pause: This is undoubtedly the shortest evening pause ever. However. you will probably have to watch it more than once to get it.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Nat King Cole – That Sunday, That Summer
An evening pause: From a 1963 BBC television special, An Evening with Nat King Cole.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Melinda Kathleen Reese – O Come O Come Emmanuel
An evening pause: 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.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Victor Borge at the White House
An evening pause: Unfortunately the youtube link does not say when this happened, but based on one Borge joke I suspect it was during the Eisenhower administration.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Charice – All By Myself
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Betty Hutton & Howard Keel – Anything You Can do
An evening pause: From the great Irving Berlin musical, Annie Get Your Gun (1950).
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
George Washington’s Farewell Address
An evening pause: On George Washington’s actual birthday, let’s honor our first president with a history lesson essentially written by the man himself, and even more pertinent today.
“We are gonna die.”
An evening pause: Even though this evening pause is not music or entertainment and is about space, it is worth watching for its thrill factor. Listen to Hoot Gibson talk about his December 2, 1988 military shuttle mission.
Hat tip John L.
Harpo Marx – Swanee River
An evening pause: From the Marx Brothers’ last film, Love Happy (1949).
Hat tip Danae.
Penderecki String Quartet – Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in F minor
An evening pause: They are really into this!
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Everybody’s Talking – Everybody’s Talking
An evening pause: The headline is not a typo. This trio is named that, and they are singing that Harry Nilsson song.
Hat tip Danae.
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Variation 18 on a theme by Paganini
An evening pause: One of the greatest and most beautiful melodies ever written, as part of a larger work. The pianist is Valentina Lisitsa, supported by the London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Francis conducting. Her playing style is the most fluid and relaxed I have ever seen.