Ennio Morricone: Gabriel’s Oboe and theme from Cinema Paradiso
An evening pause:
Tag: entertainment
Chet Atkins – Mr. Sandman
An evening pause: From 1954.
Celtic Harp Orchestra – Morrison’s Jig
An evening pause: Here’s some more harp, this time played in a way you’ve never heard it by the Celtic Harp Orchestra.
Anne Postic – Celtic Harp at Lorient in 2008
An evening pause: Anne Postic jiving on the harp.
Kitaro – Cosmic Love
An evening pause: The images are hokey, but the music is sublime: Cosmic Love by Kitaro.
“The Grasshopper and the Ants” – Disney’s Silly Symphony (1934)
An evening pause: I do believe the grasshopper sings the national anthem of the modern liberal, at the beginning of this cartoon from 1934.
Mitch & Mickey – A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow
An evening pause: From the movie A Mighty Wind (2003), a wonderful and funny pseudo documentary about the 1960s folk era. The folk team of Mitch & Mickey never existed, but this song is superb, made even more poignant by the story.
Mary Black – Thorn Upon The Rose
An evening pause: On St. Patrick’s Day, how about one of Ireland’s best singers.
No lose, it’s just the same
Tears of joy, tears of pain.
They’re hand in hand, they come as one.
Never see the Moon without promise of the Sun.
For all the roses, for all the blows.
I’d rather feel the thorn then to never see the rose.So when you give the handsome flower
Don’t forget the thorn upon the rose
Its cut is deep and its scar lasts forever
It follows love wherever love goes.
Dakuwaqa’s Garden – Underwater footage from Fiji
An evening pause: Dakuwaqa’s Garden.
Cleopatra enters Rome
An evening pause: As today is the Ides of March, I am always reminded of Julius Caesar. With that thought in mind, here is a clip from the 1953 movie, Cleopatra, staring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, and Richard Burton. The movie overall isn’t very good, though the first half with Rex Harrison playing Julius Caesar is worth watching, partly because of Harrison and partly because it is very clearly inspired by George Bernard Shaw’s play Caesar and Cleopatra.
That first half also includes the scene below, when Cleopatra enters Rome, bringing with her her son by Caesar. A more classic example of late Hollywood spectacle would be hard to find. It is silly, absurd, impossible, and yet totally engrossing. And it was done with no computer effects. When Hollywood PR used to say a movie had a “cast of thousands,” they really meant it.
Gordon Lightfoot – If You Could Read My Mind
An evening pause: Performed live, 1974.
Kevin Olusola on cello
An evening pause: Kevin Olusola doing some hip-hop improv on cello.