Emily Linge – A Day In The Life
An evening pause: A magnificent solo arrangement of one of the most complex studio-recorded Beatles song.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Tag: entertainment
Green Book – Orange Bird Piano scene
An evening pause: The premise of this scene from the 2018 movie Green Book is nothing new, and has been done innumerable times. That said, who cares? It is always fun to watch, especially if well done.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Austin McConnell – The Absurd 2nd Century Space Opera You’ll Never Read
Aretha Franklin – Freeway Of Love
Animusic – Aqua Harp
An evening pause: Hat tip to Björn Larsson (LocalFluff) for reminding me of the work of Animusic. I had posted several pieces back before 2014, but none since. Time to schedule another.
Tokyo Groove Jyoshi – Funk No.1
Geobeats – Tuck the Crow
An evening pause: We all know that the real purpose of the internet is to look at cute or intriguing animal videos. Here’s one about a crow. It also makes I think a nice intro to spring.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Vivaldi’s Bassoon Concerto In E Minor
A evening pause: The orchestra is the Chopin University of Music Orchestra, with Klaudia Abramczuk on the bassoon.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
MonaLisa Twins & Mike Massé – Africa
Rob Paravonian – Pachelbel Rant
An evening pause: Pachelbel’s Canon in D is one of the most beautiful short pieces of music ever written, which of course is why it has been an evening pause a half dozen times before. I’ve posted a version of musicians jamming it at 3 am when they have nothing better to do, singing it a capella in a stairway, spectacularly on a guitar, as heavy metal, by a chicken (you have to watch it to understand), and played as a tango, bluegrass, gypsy, and practically any musical style you can imagine.
The rant below gives us the perspective of someone who has played the piece, and it is a perspective that might surprise you. After watching it enjoy all the other versions above, but above all make sure you watch the last one. You will then understand best what the cello player is thinking.
Tatiana Eva-Marie & Avalon Jazz Band – Si Tu Vois Ma Mère
Nick Uhas – World Record Elephant Toothpaste
CHVRCHES – Never Ending Circles
Whitney Houston – How Will I Know
Nugent & Belle – Little Prayers
Rush – Time Stand Still
Paul Brandt – Convoy
An evening pause: A 2004 version of the 1975 C. W. McCall song that sure proves that life sometimes imitates art.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Boogie Woogie Queen (Ladyva) – Public piano
An evening pause: It seems a lot of my readers like to send me videos taken of improvised boogie woogie played at this public piano. Up till now I have not found these videos that compelling. This one however, with the improvised duet of two very skilled players, made the grade.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Cyndi Lauper – I Drove All Night
Eddie Money – Two Tickets to Paradise
Steely Dan – Home at last
An evening pause: The song is set to visuals from many Steely Dan concerts over the decades.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Seasick Steve – Roy’s Gang
16 hands 2 pianos – Dublin International Piano Competition
An evening pause: It might have been easier to use all the pianos on the stage, but it was clearly more fun doing it this way. The players are the previous winners at the competition.
Hat tip Charlie Tutino.
Viet View – In The Year 2525
An evening pause: This is a cover of the classic Zager and Evans 1960s song. It also cleverly uses material from numerous post-1980s sci-fi movies to match the words. Overall, those movies portray a brave new world future (as Huxley saw it), humorless, soulless, and inhumane — as does the song.
Hat tip Bob Robert.
Bonnie Raitt – Burning Down The House
Nightmare Song from Gilbert & Sullivan’s Iolanthe
An evening pause: Performed live 2018. Sadly, I don’t know who the singer is, and the youtube website does not say. UPDATE: Charlie tells me the singer is Andrew Shore.
Note: You want to watch this with the captions running.
Hat tip Charlie Tutino.
Alberta Hunter – My Handy Man
Mike Rowe – Can You Be There By Nine?
Krisztina Vellai – Aerial Silk Act
A evening pause: Don’t try this at home.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Want to make a suggestion for an evening pause? Behind the Black could use your help. If you’ve done it before you know the routine. If not, mention that you have something in the comments but don’t post the link to it. I will contact you.
The guidelines:
1. The subject line should say “evening pause.”
2. Don’t send more than three in any email. I prefer however if you send them one email at a time.
3. Variety! Don’t send me five from the same artist. I can only use one. Pick your favorite and send that.
4. Live performance preferred.
5. Quirky technology, humor, and short entertaining films also work.
6. Search BtB first to make sure your suggestion hasn’t already been posted.
7. I might not respond immediately, as I schedule these in a bunch.
8. Avoid the politics of the day. The pause is a break from such discussion.