Canadian Brass Ensemble – Penny Lane
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Tag: entertainment
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
A evening pause: A humble prayer, with a nice beat.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
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.