Ùr – The Waking Hour
An evening pause: This group’s full name is “Ùr: The Future Of Our Past,” but that’s incredibly unwieldy. Their performance of this beautiful song, however, live in 2017, is superb.
Hat tip Danae.
Tag Archives: entertainment
Harris, Parton, Ronstadt – After the Gold Rush
An evening pause: Performed live on television 1999. The strange blue instrument being played by Dennis James is called a glass harmonica (or armonica).
Hat tip Danae.
Smart House
An evening pause: This is a set of two commercials. I have no idea what the product is that they are selling, nor do I care. They are hilarious, and speak well to the modern childish obsession of adopting hi-tech where no hi-tech is really needed.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Kasia Łaska & Jon Lord – Wait A While
The Carol Burnett Show – The Senator’s Wife
An eveing pause: Sadly, I think these characters are maybe more connected to reality than many we presently have in office.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Berlin Brass Quintet – Puttin’ on the Ritz
Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson – I Still Miss Someone
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who said, “A song about longing and being incomplete.”
And seeing Willie Nelson without a beard in itself makes this worth watching.
Josh Groban – Try To Remember
An evening pause: A song that looks back at September, from the cold fading days of December.
From The Fantasticks.
Canadian Brass Ensemble – Penny Lane
Peter, Paul and Mary – Blowing in the Wind
An evening pause: I like the commentary about this song at the youtube webpage. “Although it has been described as a protest song, it poses a series of rhetorical questions about peace, war and freedom. The refrain “The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind” [is] … impenetrably ambiguous: either the answer is so obvious it is right in your face, or the answer is as intangible as the wind.
In this sense, Bob Dylan’s song really does transcend the 1960s, as does much of his work.
Hat tip John Vernoski.
Don Williams – Lord I hope this day is good
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
In honor of April 1st
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
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.
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
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
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.