An evening pause: Another music history lesson to start the weekend. As she says, listening to baroque music played on this instrument explains a great deal about that music, and definitely tells you what that music was expected to sound like when composed, compared to playing it on modern instruments. Far more haunting, a word I would never have used to describe Baroque music before.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: Performed live either 1978 or 1979. For Valentine’s Day tomorrow.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: From the first episode of The Judy Garland Show, taped in June 1964 and aired December 1964.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
An evening pause: With Doug Wamble (guitar), Ron Mcbee (percussion), and Sam Reider (accordion). The song is by Rag’n’Bone Man.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: Performed live 2011.
Hat tip Alton Blevins, who needs to clean out his inbox, which is now so full all of my emails to him bounce.
An evening pause: Performed live 2013 in Hong Kong when it was still free. I wonder if the Chinese would allow an American band there now.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
An evening pause: Hat tip Judd Clark, who provides this translation:
O flower flower
O flower flower bouquet bouquet
I’m for you
I’m for you
I’m crazy for you
I’m crazy, I’m crazy
I’m crazy, this is trueWhere did you go that I was always on your mind
I’m dying from missing you because I cannot see you
Where did you go that I was always on your mind
I’m dying from missing you because I cannot see you
An evening pause: My readers recommend so many organ performances I decided to start the weekend with short but entertaining primer on how pipe organs work. As always, there are surprises. Our narrator was the organist on Monday’s evening pause.
An evening pause: A nice cover of the Rogers & Hammerstein song from The Sound of Music (1965).
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
An evening pause: Performed live 2024. Seem celebratory enough for Inauguration Day.
Hat tip Alton Blevins, who also needs to clean out his full inbox so that he can receive emails. It has been full now for several weeks, and all emails to him thus bounce.
An evening pause: You can tell they are not only utterly focused on what they are doing, they are having a great deal of fun as they do it.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
An evening pause: The song apparently is from the Doctor Who television series, but as I have never been a fan, I do not know the context.
Hat tip James Street.
An evening pause: A cover of a song from the end credits of the 2003 The Lord of the Rings film, The Return of the King..
Hat tip Alton Blevins, whose gmail inbox is filled and thus cannot receive any emails from me, or anyone. Alton: Clean out your inbox!
An evening pause: Performed live 2012, but this was not before an audience but was simply their sound check performance beforehand to make sure the microphones were all at the right level to mix properly.
Hat tip to Ferris Akel, who adds “by a band that always took soundchecks very seriously.”
An evening pause: A bit of contrast from yesterday’s pause. Performed live 2022 by the Symphony Orchestra & Grand Choir of the Collegium Musicum Berlin, Donka Miteva conducting.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: If you haven’t yet got up from your weekend partying, this will do it. Performed live sometime in the early 1970s.
Hat tip Alec Gimarc.
