Gale Garnett – We’ll Sing in the Sunshine
An evening pause: Hat tip Tom Biggar. As he wrote me, “We need a little sunshine.”
Tag: music
Brandon Ridenour & Rachel Kudo – Fantasy Variations” on a theme by Paganini
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Earl Scruggs & Men with Banjos – Foggy Mountain Breakdown
An evening pause: And yes, that is Steve Martin playing on the left.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Al Stewart – Year of the Cat
An evening pause: A very nice performance. Hat tip Danae.
Glen Campbell & Flip Wilson ~ Rocky Racoon
An evening pause: Comedy meets the Beatles in this 1969 performance from the Glen Campbell television show.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
The Tokens – The Lion Sleeps Tonight
An evening pause: As always, it is enormously pleasurable to watch performers who clearly are having a good time.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Jay Ungar & Molly Mason – Ashokan Farewell
An evening pause: A very nice performance of a very nice melody.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Alexander Rybak – Into A Fantasy
An evening pause: Rybak returns, this time performing live in 2014 his song for the animated film How to Train your Dragon 2 (2014). I normally don’t post videos made by audience members, but this time I make an exception because the performance is good and the videographer had the sense to soon ignore the dancers and stay focused on Rybak, who grabs the audience and holds them.
Hat tip Danae.
Alexander Rybak & Stefan Ibsen Zlatanos – Clair de Lune
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae. Tomorrow the evening pause will be an entirely different piece of music written by tonight’s violinist. As Danae noted in describing Rybak to me, “Composer, singer, dancer, musician on violin and piano, actor and impersonator of famous vocalists on Eurovision TV’s equivalent of American Idol, this 29 year-old, though occasionally temperamental, is a rising star in Europe. He was born in the Soviet Union, but has lived in Norway since he was four years old, and speaks Russian, Norwegian and English fluently.”
The Statler Brothers – Flowers On The Wall
An evening pause: I posted a 1960s television performance in 2012, but this recent live version is also worth watching, if only to see how time has changed the performers.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Camille Saint-Saëns – Piano concerto No.5
An evening pause: Also called “The Egyptian”, performed live by the Concertgebouw Orchestra with Jean-Yves Thibaudet on the piano.
A nice way to end the week. Put it up in the background if you find focusing on classical music too difficult. You will find yourself coming back to it to watch and listen. Quite beautiful and enchanting.
Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven
An evening pause: From the movie The Song Remains the Same (1976).
Hat tip Danae.
Sibelius – Waltz Trist
An evening pause: Something calm and relaxing to ease the mind in these interesting times. Performed live by the Paris Orchestra conducted by Paavo Javi.
Hat tip Danae.
The Brothers Four – Scarlet Ribbons
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
David Gilmour of Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae, who notes correctly, “Terrible lifestyle, terrible message, but they knew how to play.”
Nathan and Eva Leach – Hero
An evening pause: Stay with it. It gets better and better.
Hat tip Rocco E.
Anne Murray – I Just Fall in Love Again
An evening pause: Performed live in 2003. Hat tip Danae.
Joe Hisaishi & New Japan Philharmonic World Dream Orchestra – Tubular Bells
An evening pause: Without the bells, mostly. We don’t need no stupid bells!
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
The Muppets – Ode to Joy
An evening pause: It could be argued that all classical music would be better played in this manner.
Lorrie Morgan – Will You Love Me Tomorrow
An evening pause: How about a wonderful country rendition of this pop classic?