Tag: music
Pomplamoose – Can’t Stop Feeling Billie Jean’s Face
An evening pause: A silly, but well played song.
Hat tip Cotour.
Leroy Troy – Ghost Chickens In The Sky
An evening pause: Hat tip Thomas Biggar.
Dylan Elise – Drum solo
An evening pause: Stay with it. The first half is good, but it is merely an appetizer for the second half.
Hat tip Rex Ridenoure from Ecliptic Enterprises, who says of this clip, “This video went viral, and he’s now the drummer for the Blood, Sweat and Tears band and seeing the world.”
Anastasia Tyurina – Valenki
An evening pause: She was seven when this was performed live in Moscow on September 13, 2018.
Hat tip Thomas Biggar.
Lang Lang & Mark Guiliana – Why Bartók Rocks
An evening pause: They also do a Prokofiev piece.
Hat tip Diane Wilson.
Max Vandervorst & Marc Hérouet – Music for abandoned objects
An evening pause: The first is amazingly beautiful, the last especially silly.
Hat tip Diane Wilson.
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – Fly Me Off the Händel
An evening pause: It’s been awhile since this group has been an evening pause. And here they do it all, at once.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Mew & Copenhagen Philharmonic – Comforting Sounds
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae, who noted that this “represents the mindset of a large segment of contemporary youth: enervated, alienated, effete victims of Life and Everyone Else.”
John Farnham – You’re the Voice
A evening pause: Performed live 2016.
Hat tip Danae.
Keiko Matsui – Whisper from the Mirror
An evening pause: Contrast her firm style of playing with the relaxed style of Valentina Lisitsa here. Both play great, but do it in such different ways.
Hat tip Rex Ridenoure from Ecliptic Enterprises.
NEC Jazz Orchestra – Maharajah of Magador
An evening pause: Music by Vaughn Monroe.
Hat tip Danae.
Aliaksei Zholner – Paper Piano
An evening pause: Humans can make anything out of anything. From the youtube website:
The model is completely made of paper and cardboard….Strings are made of paper strips, tension mechanism is like one in guitar, using worm-gear (worm is made of paper, gears – from cardboard). Soundboard is combined with stiffness frame and made of 2.5mm cardboard enforced with stiffening ribs. Hammers – from paper and cardboard, dampers – from rolled up paper napkin, keys – from paper. Body is made of cardboard and painted.
Hat tip Martin Kaselis.
Timothy Seaman & Ann Robinson – The Foggy Dew
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
1776 – Hatching an Egg
A mid-day pause: Posted by me on almost every Fourth of July since this site was founded, it is time to do it again. From the 1976 movie version of the 1972 musical, 1776. As I said in those earlier posts, “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.”
And as John Kennedy said of himself, ourselves, and these founding fathers. “We stand for freedom.”
Andy Griffith & Joanna Moore – Down in the Valley
An evening pause: More Americana for this Independence Day week. From 1960s television, The Andy Griffith Show.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Lacy J Dalton – The Boys of 16th Avenue
An evening pause: It’s Independence Week. Let’s keep that Americana sound going!
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Judy Garland & Deanna Durbin – Americana
An evening pause: From the short 1936 film, Every Sunday, made essentially as a screen test for the two young future stars.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Wiener Glasharmonika Duo – Musicbox
An evening pause: And in this case, the music is most appropriately written by Philip Glass.
Hat tip Danae.
Josh Ritter – Joy To You Baby
A evening pause: Hat tip Danae.