Kraftwerk – The Robots
An evening pause: From 1977, some early electronic music.
Tag: entertainment
Exploding Pianos
An evening pause: Some very obscure but fun science history.
Shania Twain & Alison Krauss – Forever And For Always
An evening pause:
Kristin Chenoweth – Glitter and Be Gay
An evening pause: From Leonard Bernstein’s comic opera Candide. Watch Cunégonde struggle with the possibility that she might no longer be poor.
Hat tip Danae.
Cara Dillon – P Stands For Paddy
An evening pause: Live performance 2006.
Groucho Marx – You Bet Your Life, May 12, 1955
An evening pause: Instead of relying on the modern boring use of bathroom humor and obscenities, watch Groucho make everyone laugh by simply reacting to circumstances in exactly right way.
Hat tip Danae.
Planxty – The Blacksmith
An evening pause: From their 2004 reunion.
Naturally 7 – Ready or Not
An evening pause: Recorded live.
Hat tip to Frank.
Itzhak Perlman – Theme from Schindler’s List
An evening pause: He plays this with the verge and style of the best bluegrass fiddlers.
Hat tip again to Phil Berardelli.
Béla Fleck – Big Country
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Soprillo & Tubax Contrabass Saxophone Duet
An evening pause: I don’t know if it’s possible to two instruments to be farther apart in range. Yet they work together here very nicely. Nigel Wood plays the soprillo while Jim Cheek plays the tubax.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
How a woman gets undressed on television in Italy
An evening pause: Believe me, this has everything to do with engineering.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.