Longplayer
An evening pause: This piece of music has been playing since 1999 and will continue until 2999. Very meditative.
Tag: music
Kate Wolf – Eyes of a Painter
An evening pause: Kate Wolf sadly passed away prematurely in 1986. Here is a live performance from 1985.
Antonio Breschi – Language of the Land
An evening pause: Antonio Breschi again, this time with a piece of his own, from his album At the Edge of the Night. Last week I posted a breathtaking piano performance by Breschi, but unfortunately, I can’t find a video of him playing this particular piece, which I first heard back in the mid-1980s. Nonetheless, the music so beautiful it is really doesn’t need fancy visuals.
Carole King – Tapestry
An evening pause: Carole King performs and is interviewed for the 1982 documentary One to One.
The first notes in the longest and slowest piece of music in history, designed to go on for 639 years, will be played on a German church organ this Wednesday.
The first notes in the longest and slowest piece of music in history, designed to go on for 639 years, will be played on a German church organ this Wednesday.
But is it really music?
Patti LuPone – Sleepy Man
An evening pause: From one of Broadway’s most underrated musicals, Robber Bridegroom.
Joe Hisaishi – theme from My Neighbor Totoro
An evening pause: Composer Joe Hisaishi conducts and plays piano in this live performance of his music from the animated film, My Neighbor Totoro.
I just watched the film again with family, and my opinion of it only grows with each viewing.
The Shirelles – Will You Love Me Tomorrow
An evening pause: Performed live by the Shirelles, 1964, with Shirley Alston Reeves as lead and Beverly Lee, Addie “Micki” Harris, and Doris Kenner as backup.
Antonio Breschi – from Bach to Ireland on the piano
An evening pause: More off the cuff piano playing from Antonio Breschi, from Bach to Ireland.
Cousin Jake, Uncle Josh, Earl Scruggs – Nobody’s business
An evening pause: “Nobody’s business what I do.”
Olivia Newton John – Don’t Cry For Me Argentina
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Bee Gees – I Started a Joke
An evening pause: In honor of the passing of Robin Gibbs on May 20. This performance was recorded live at Festival Hall in Melbourne, Australia in 1971.
Phil Collins -In the air tonight
An evening pause:
Antonio Breschi – Jig in the Castle
An evening pause: An Irish jig morphs into some wild and spectacular improv.
Antonio Breschi on the piano, Mairtin O’Connor, accordion, Johnny MacCarthy, flute, Jane Cassidy, bazouki, and Steve Cooney, bass. Recorded in Belfast around 1990.
Breschi by the way is probably one of the world’s best improvisational pianists.
Canadian Brass performing live in China
An evening pause: Performed live in China, on January 27, 2011.
Art Of Noise – Robinson Crusoe
An evening pause: Music by Art of Noise, inspired by the soundtrack from the 1960s television show, Robinson Crusoe.
The video has some incredible stop-action cloud sequences.
Dueling Banjos
An evening pause: Bob Anthonioz (as Hardy) on the guitar and Philippe Bourgeois (as Laurel) on the banjo.
My Music Cube
An evening pause: The modern approach to a 1960s light show.
Virgil Thomson – Finale, The River
An evening pause: Music by Virgil Thomson, paintings by John Steuart Curry.
Chopin’s Etude in Gb Major
An evening pause: How about some Chopin, played by an 11 year old.