Rossini – Overture to The Thieving Magpie
An evening pause: Boian Videnoff conducts the Mannheim Philharmonic Orchestra.
And no, this was not written for Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971).
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Tag: music
Eric Clapton – Tears In Heaven
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae, who suggested a different performance that I posted back in 2015. I also posted a third version in 2011. No matter. There is something very heartfelt about the song and every Clapton performance that makes it worth watching again and again. The song was written following the death of Clapton’s four-year-old son, Conor, after falling from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment on March 20, 1991.
Anna Nalick – Breathe (2am)
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Dan Hill – Sometimes When We Touch
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Hoagy Carmichael & Lauren Bacall – Am I Blue?
An evening pause: From the 1944 Humphrey Bogart film To Have and Have Not, which was also Lauren Bacall’s unbelievably spectacular screen debut. “You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.”
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Avi Avital – Vivaldi’s Mandolin Concerto in C Major
An evening pause: He starts out by very carefully placing a score before him on his stand, but then never opens or looks at it during the entire performance. Instead, he plays the whole thing from memory, wielding his mandolin as if it is part of him. And he and the entire group is clearly having a great deal of fun doing it.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Johnny Cash – Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down
An evening pause: Performed live, 1972.
Hat tip Danae.
Alison Krauss & Union Station – Man of Constant Sorrow
An evening pause: Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Dire Straits – Your Latest Trick
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Tzvi Erez – Chopin Nocturne Opus 55 #1 in F minor
An evening pause: Recorded live 2003.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Billy Preston – Nothing from Nothing
An evening pause: Performed during a Ringo Starr concert in Japan, 1995.
Hat tip Danae.
Dale Watson – Texas Armadillo
An evening pause: As we sit in the depths of the summer, this song about of all things roadkill somehow seems fitting to me.
Hat tip Robert Pratt of Pratt on Texas.