Tag Archives: music
Sade – Your Love Is King
Aaron Copland – Appalachian Spring
An evening pause: Performed by Perspectives Ensemble using the original 1944 orchestration.
Hat tip Diane Wilson, who admits that “it’s long-ish, but this is a superb performance of purely American experience set to music.” I agree. You will be refreshed and enlightened by it.
The Pretenders – Brass In Pocket
Glen Campbell – Wichita Lineman
Sleepy Man Banjo Boys – Three bluegrass songs
An evening pause: From left to right that Robbie (14), Jonny (10), and Tommy (15) Mizzone, brothers from New Jersey.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Silent Monks Sing the Hallelujah Chorus
An evening pause: There is something both inspired and silly about this performance by this South Kitsap High School vocal group in Port Orchard, Washington.
Hat tip Martin Kaselis.
Jonah Ho – Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No.2
An evening pause: Hat tip Tom Biggar, who writes, “I finally figured what’s wrong with my playing – I need to get a pair of jammies like his.”
To me, this illustrates the awesomeness possible from each person, especially the young, who don’t yet know they can’t do it, and so they do.
Survivor – Eye of the Tiger
An evening pause: Performed live 1985 in Japan. Stay with it. They just don’t want this performance to end.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
George Harrison tribute – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
An evening pause: Performed live in 2004 by Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne and others.
Hat tip Cotour.
Stan Hershonik – Making of an Aeolian Harp
A evening pause: Another demonstration of the amazing ability of humans to improvise new things using the most unexpected materials.
I must say however that the sound produced would be exactly what I’d expect to hear upon entering a haunted house.
Hat tip Diane Wilson.
Mike Oldfield – In the beginning & Let there be light
An evening pause: A nice way to start the new year. And yes, that is Bill Anders’ voice, recorded during the Christmas Eve broadcast from Apollo 8 in 1968 in orbit around the Moon.
John Hess – Auld Lang Syne
Catalina Vicens – Rondeau
An evening pause: The instrument is a medieval portative organ. The music is not medieval but was written in 2014 by American composer Carson Cooman.
Hat tip Diane Wilson.
Jennifer Nettles – O Holy Night/Hallelujah
U.S. Army Band – Bluegrass Christmas Medley
Mariah Carey – All I Want For Christmas Is You
The Starbugs – Mr Tambourine Man
An evening pause: Sung by Jessie Hillel, Sarah Whitaker, Roisin Anderson, Ben Anderson, Rebecca Jenkins. From the youtube page: “We have re-pitched this captivating selection of favourites to suit children’s voices.”
Truly one of Bob Dylan’s most beautiful and poetic songs.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Beverly “Guitar” Watkins – Rock Me Baby
An evening pause: Performed live March 3, 2017, with the Rick Fowler Band. She passed away, aged 80, on October 1, 2019.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Thomas Dolby – Blinded Me With Science
Josh & Larkin – Just Like Heaven
World Order – Singularity
Women Of Country – medley
An evening pause: Performed live by Terri Clark, Sara Evans, Crystal Gayle, The Highwomen, Martina McBride, Reba McEntire, Jennifer Nettles, Dolly Parton, Tanya Tucker, Carrie Underwood and Gretchen Wilson at the 2019 Country Music Awards.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Eleanor Powell & Buddy Rich – I’ll Take Tallulah
An evening pause: Actually, the song is the least interesting thing about this dance number from Ship Ahoy (1942). Stick with it to see the dance interplay between dancer Powell and drummer Rich.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Queen – You’re My Best Friend
USAF Band – Greensleeves & Carol of the Bells
A evening pause: Performed live December 3, 2014 at the Udvar-Hazy Center of the Air & Space Museum in Virginia. They call this a flash mob but it isn’t, since the crowds clearly know what is about to happen. The music however is wonderful, and makes for a nice start to the holiday season.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Louis Armstrong – What a wonderful world
An afternoon pause: We are all too busy right this moment with turkey, friends, family, and socializing. Here Louis Armstrong tells you what it all means, really.
Recorded in 1967.
Paganini in gypsy jazz style
A evening pause: The performers are Florian Cristea (violin), Richard Smith, Bina Coquet, Fernando Seifarth (guitar), and Nando Vicencio (bass).
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
André Rieu – Lippen Schweigen
An evening pause: From the opera The Merry Widow. If anything, Rieu knows how to put on a good show. And it helps that his Austrian audience understands the lyrics.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Carolina Eyck – The Ecstasy of Gold
An evening pause: The music is by Ennio Morricone. She is playing a theremin, which is played without any direct contact by the player. The antennas sense the positions of the hands and fingers.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.