George Harrison and Eric Clapton – While my guitar gently weeps
An evening pause: From a 1987 concert (from which I have posted a previous evening pause), with a little help from Ringo Starr, Phil Collins, and Elton John.
Hat tip to Keith Douglas.
Tag: music
Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters – You Don’t Have to Know the Language
An evening pause: From The Road to Rio (1947), with a little help from Bob Hope.
Hat tip again to Phil Berardelli, author of Phil’s Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime, which I have found to be a great reference for finding the best films from movie history.
Kraftwerk – The Robots
Shania Twain & Alison Krauss – Forever And For Always
Kristin Chenoweth – Glitter and Be Gay
An evening pause: From Leonard Bernstein’s comic opera Candide. Watch Cunégonde struggle with the possibility that she might no longer be poor.
Hat tip Danae.
Cara Dillon – P Stands For Paddy
Planxty – The Blacksmith
Naturally 7 – Ready or Not
Itzhak Perlman – Theme from Schindler’s List
An evening pause: He plays this with the verge and style of the best bluegrass fiddlers.
Hat tip again to Phil Berardelli.
Béla Fleck – Big Country
Soprillo & Tubax Contrabass Saxophone Duet
An evening pause: I don’t know if it’s possible to two instruments to be farther apart in range. Yet they work together here very nicely. Nigel Wood plays the soprillo while Jim Cheek plays the tubax.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Kate Rusby – Who will sing me lullabies?
Ennio Morricone – Gabriel´s Oboe (clarinet version)
An evening pause: Performed live 2011 with Sabine Grofmeier on the clarinet. From the 1986 film The Mission.
Linsey Pollak – Carrot clarinet
Ann Miller – Too Darn Hot
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer – Hoedown
An evening pause: Performed live at the Nassau Coliseum in 1978. What makes this particular video intriguing is that it focuses entirely on what the drummer is doing.
Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused To Sing
Saving a tree
Judy Collins with Shawn Colvin – Since You’ve Asked
The greatest electronic music of the fifties and sixties
Link here. Many of these could easily be an evening pause, other than the fact that they don’t have visuals. If you want to get a feel for the beginnings of electronic music, check them out. The styles range from space music to jazzy. The sampling even includes the electronic music from Forbidden Planet (1956), one of the best science fiction films ever made. I have put one as an example below the fold.
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Link here. Many of these could easily be an evening pause, other than the fact that they don’t have visuals. If you want to get a feel for the beginnings of electronic music, check them out. The styles range from space music to jazzy. The sampling even includes the electronic music from Forbidden Planet (1956), one of the best science fiction films ever made. I have put one as an example below the fold.
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Ana Yang – Blowing bubbles
Icehouse – Great Southern Land
Glenn Miller – In the mood
An evening pause: From the 1954 Jimmy Stewart film, The Glenn Miller Story. They play on, even as a German V1 buzz bomb comes flying in.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Mark Knopfler – Going Home
An evening pause: The closing music from the 1983 film Local Hero, performed live by its composer Mark Knopfler.
Hat tip to Phil Berardelli.
Animusic – Acoustic Curves
An evening pause: It has been a while since I posted some animusic. Hat tip to Keith Douglas for reminding me of that lack.
The return of vinyl records
The sales of vinyl records has been booming, exceeding numbers not seen in decades.
The sales of vinyl records has been booming, exceeding numbers not seen in decades.
Hang Playing Hedge Monkeys
Morning Has Broken for Harp & Violin
An evening pause: Arranged by Joyce Weaver; Brent Williams, Violin; Merrie Beth Eubanks, Harp; Recorded Live at First United Methodist Church, Valdosta, GA on February 19, 2012. Produced by Chris Williams.
The real story behind “The Sound of Music”
Link here. And the story is surprisingly not much different than the movie itself.
Link here. And the story is surprisingly not much different than the movie itself.
Andreas Vollenweider – May Green Be The Grass
An evening pause: Performed live in Santiago, 1995, with Eberhard Han, Mindy Jostyn, and Walter Keiser.
Hat tip Danae.