Ennio Morricone – Gabriel´s Oboe (clarinet version)
An evening pause: Performed live 2011 with Sabine Grofmeier on the clarinet. From the 1986 film The Mission.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Linsey Pollak – Carrot clarinet
Ann Miller – Too Darn Hot
Maintaining a high voltage line
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer – Hoedown
An evening pause: Performed live at the Nassau Coliseum in 1978. What makes this particular video intriguing is that it focuses entirely on what the drummer is doing.
The Muppets & Rita Moreno – Fever
An evening pause: My first thought was: how can she keep a straight face?
Hat tip to Phil Berardelli.
Death Valley’s moving rocks
An evening pause: The detective story that solved the mystery of the moving rocks of Death Valley.
For a century, these eerie rocks and their long, graceful trails have stumped visitors and scientists. The boulders of black dolomite appear to move on their own, sliding uphill across the playa’s flat lakebed. The trails are the only evidence the rocks move. No one has ever seen them set sail.
Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused To Sing
Saving a tree
Keep Calm and Carry On
An evening pause: On the anniversary of one of the darkest days of both American history and Western civilization, this simple message echoing down from World War II tells us exactly what we should do.
Hat tip to Tim.
Judy Collins with Shawn Colvin – Since You’ve Asked
Ana Yang – Blowing bubbles
Icehouse – Great Southern Land
Excavator mulches trees in seconds
An evening pause: The speed and efficiency in which this excavator mulches a tree is almost nightmarish. Makes me think of innumerable science fiction disintegrator ray guns.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Glenn Miller – In the mood
An evening pause: From the 1954 Jimmy Stewart film, The Glenn Miller Story. They play on, even as a German V1 buzz bomb comes flying in.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Mark Knopfler – Going Home
An evening pause: The closing music from the 1983 film Local Hero, performed live by its composer Mark Knopfler.
Hat tip to Phil Berardelli.
Animusic – Acoustic Curves
An evening pause: It has been a while since I posted some animusic. Hat tip to Keith Douglas for reminding me of that lack.
One minute changes a life forever
An evening pause: Instead of music, let’s watch a man’s life change forever, for the better, in only one minute. And forgive me for saying so, but it is freedom, property rights, and capitalism that allowed it to happen.
Hang Playing Hedge Monkeys
Morning Has Broken for Harp & Violin
An evening pause: Arranged by Joyce Weaver; Brent Williams, Violin; Merrie Beth Eubanks, Harp; Recorded Live at First United Methodist Church, Valdosta, GA on February 19, 2012. Produced by Chris Williams.
Andreas Vollenweider – May Green Be The Grass
An evening pause: Performed live in Santiago, 1995, with Eberhard Han, Mindy Jostyn, and Walter Keiser.
Hat tip Danae.
Bugs Bunny – 8 Ball Bunny
An evening pause: From 1950. Film buffs will especially get a laugh out of the reference to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
2Cellos – With or without you
Linda Ronstadt – Love has no pride
An evening pause: Recorded live from Tennessee State Prison in 1976 for a TV special called “A Concert Behind Prison Walls,” hosted by Johnny Cash and aired in 1977.
Roy Orbison – In Dreams
An evening pause: From A Black and White Night, recorded originally for television in 1988. Orbison is backed up here by an all star cast, including just to name a few Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, k.d. lang, and Bonnie Raitt.
Hat tip to Tom.
Beautiful woodworking
Above LA 4K
An evening pause: The creator strongly advises that you watch this in full screen HD with sound on. And I agree.
Hat tip Tom.
Steve’n’Seagulls – Thunderstruck
An evening pause: This Finnish band does a nice job of covering the AC/DC hard rock song Thunderstruck, but doing it in a bluegrass kind of way. The banjo player is especially amazing.
Hat tip to my lovely wife Diane.
Puddles Pity Party – Dancing Queen
An evening pause:
I’ve posted a performance by Puddles the sad clown (Mike Geier) previously. This cover by him of the ABBA hit is truly original and makes you actually hear the real meaning of the words.
The Cat Came Back
An evening pause: Hat tip to Phil Berardelli.