An evening pause: Watch how each player carefully watches the lead player, listening to the song, and then joins in carefully so as to not overpower the melody, but adding instead a layer that accentuates its beauty.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
An evening pause: For Memorial Day. And yes, you’ve heard this endless times before, but watch it here as it is played. It will bring it to life again.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
An evening pause: Stiles is an engineer at Blue Origin, as well as a master sky-diver. You can see the full video of the record skydive here.
Somehow, this seems appropriate on the day Diane and I are returning from two weeks in Wales.
Hat tip Rex Ridenoure.
An evening pause: Alejandro Vázquez, trumpet solo. Provides a fascinating contrast with yesterday’s pause.
Hat tip Danae.
An evening pause: This piece comes from a 1930 Soviet propaganda ballet, with music by Dmitri Shostakovich. It tells the story of a Soviet-era soccer team traveling through Europe in the 1920s, which provides the setting for the propaganda. I like the musical give-and-take. It is almost like two people arguing.
Hat tip Diane Wilson.
An evening pause: From the opera Rusalka. The soloist is Musician 1st Class Susan Kavinski.
Hat tip Danae.
An evening pause: What makes the sentiment here good is that he is giving it all, freely, with love.
Hat tip Danae.
An evening pause: From an 1982 tour. Somehow the title seems entirely apt to me.
Hat tip Diane Wilson.
An evening pause: With Aaron Jones on the bouzouki guitar, Jack Smedley on the fiddle, and Euan Burton on the bass.
There is music, and then there is music. The latter, as here, always sends chills up my spine.
Hat tip Danae.
An evening pause: Fans of the show will appreciate this more, but I like it because of its heart felt sincerity.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
This pause is late partly because I forgot to schedule something, but mostly because I am desperately in need of suggestions. If you’ve sent me suggestions before, you know the routine. If you haven’t but have something you want to suggest, don’t post the link in a comment here. Just comment that you have something, and I will contact you.
An evening pause: On many cellos. Music by Lana Del Rey.
Hat tip Clark Lindsey, who runs Hobbyspace.com.
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who explains, “Australian comedian, Barry Humphries, is Dame Edna Everage.” This appearance was on the Michael Parkinson Show in Australian in 2004, and included actors Judi Dench and Sharon Osborne.
This is what great comedy is. Many of the lines really make no sense, or are dated about things you might not know anything about, but you laugh anyway because Humphries is just plain funny, and has magnificent timing.
An evening pause: A nice rendition of a song by Kate Wolf about crossing the divide between life and death, who herself died far too young.
Hat tip Danae.
An evening pause: Watch those fingers dance. The instrument she’s playing is called a harp guitar.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
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.
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.
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.
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.
