An evening pause: This performance, by Stevie Wonder as well as the audience, brought a smile to my face. When you watch I think you’ll see why, especially when Wonder asks the audience, “Can I sing with ya?”
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
An evening pause: Some more nice guitar playing. Performed live in Stockholm, Sweden, 1969.
Hat tip Tom Wilson.
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An evening pause: I especially like the sound clarity and sharpness of the electric guitar playing.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
An evening pause: From the youtube webpage: “The three main stops on the Golden Circle route in Iceland: 1. The magnificent Gullfoss waterfall; 2. Haukadalur geothermal area (widely known as Geysir) – famous for its geysers and termal pools (Strokkur being the most active); 3. Thingvellir National Park, where the Icelandic Parliament was established in 930, and where the continental drift between Europe and North America can be easily noticed.”
The music is “The Most Beautiful Things” by Michael Murphy.
Hat tip Danae, who added “Just chillin’ with sights for a hot summer day.”
An evening pause: From the Andrew Lloyd Weber musical, Song & Dance. Performed live in London in 1998.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
An evening pause: At different performance of this song on youtube, Sheeran tells the audience that for this song to work “we’ve all got to be very very very quiet.” I agree. Take the time to listen quietly.
Hat tip Chris McLaughlin.
An evening pause: This appears to a rehearsal for the 1973 BBC show, A Little Touch of Schmilsson, with Frank Sinatra’s arranger Gordon Jenkins.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
An evening pause: Waterholes Canyon is a side canyon leading down into the Colorado River, north of the Grand Canyon. The people canyoneering here are caving friends of mine. The video was created by Kimberly Franke, whom you pretty much only see in the opening still shot, since she was wearing the camera most of the time. Her husband Kevin Franke is also a fellow caver who is the person with the white helmet and thick whitish beard. The woman in the red helmet doing the very long drop near the end is Belinda Norby, also a fellow caver. The music is “Point of No Return” by Roger Subirana Mata.
The world is filled with amazing things to see. This video does a nice job of highlighting just one of them.
An evening pause: Performed live in Budapest 1997. Emerson’s piano playing is amazing, and uses techniques I have never seen before.
Hat tip Chris McLaughlin.
An evening pause: This is not the American hymn, but a Russian piece performed here by the composer.
Hat tip Danae.
An evening pause: This instrumental music, used as the theme music for the 1970s television show, Soul Train, has only one significant vocal line: “People all over the world!” I think the visuals used here, of Earth taken from the International Space Station, make that line seem especially appropriate.
Hat tip James Stephens.
An evening pause: I especially like the use of digital sounds mixed with the standard orchestra.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
An evening pause: Another appropriate piece for the start of the week. Performed live, 1982.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
An evening pause: I think the words from Moscow on the Hudson (1984) sum this music video up very well: “Strange but wonderful.”
Hat tip Max Hunt.
An evening pause: For the Fourth of July, this song from the 1976 movie version of the 1972 musical, 1776. Not only did the musical capture the essence of the men who made independency happen, it is also a rollicking and entertaining work of art.
I last posted this piece last in 2010. Time to watch again.
An evening pause: Performed live 2009. I think this is a good way to start the weekend.
Hat tip Frank Kelly.
An evening pause: Performed live, July 2, 1977 at the Oakland Coliseum. It’s Thursday evening, the week is almost over!
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
An evening pause: How about some classic American Big Band music to get us through the middle of the week?
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
An evening pause Some good stand-up comedy to lighten the first half of the week.
Hat tip Tim Vogel, who emailed to say “One of our friends sent this to us because we are having a 4th ourselves.”
