Tag: music
Don McLean – American pie
Sammy Davis, Jr. – Mr. Bojangles
An evening pause: From an 1985 performance in Germany, only five years before his death. By this time, Davis was not only performing this song as a tribute to Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, he was performing it as a testament to his own life in entertainment.
Bryn Terfel – Turtle Dove
An evening pause:
Fare you well, my dear, I must be gone
And leave you for awhile.
If I roam away I’ll come back again
Though I roam ten thousand miles, my dear,
Though I roam ten thousand miles.
Doc Watson – Windy and Warm
An evening pause: In tribute to Doc Watson, who died last week at the age of 89. Blind from the age of 1, Watson is widely considered one of America’s best folk guitarists. Watch what he does here in this 1991 live performance.
Longplayer
An evening pause: This piece of music has been playing since 1999 and will continue until 2999. Very meditative.
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
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?
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
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
Cousin Jake, Uncle Josh, Earl Scruggs – Nobody’s business
Olivia Newton John – Don’t Cry For Me Argentina
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
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
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
Virgil Thomson – Finale, The River
Chopin’s Etude in Gb Major
Tony Banks – The waters of Lethe
Richard Rogers – Edelweiss
An evening pause: From The Sound of Music (1965). The context: The Nazis have taken over Austria, and plan to arrest Captain Georg Ludwig von Trapp and his family at the end of this concert. This lovely song, Edelweiss, is initially sung by von Trapp as a farewell to his nation. As the song unfolds, however, it becomes instead a song of defiance against the Nazis, by the von Trapps and the audience.
Always, always, we must stand for freedom.
Antonin Dvorak – From the New World, Symphony #9, 2nd movement
An evening pause: The most beautiful melody from the second movement of Antonin Dvorak’s 9th Symphony, “From the New World,” performed here by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andris Nelsons.
Shanthi the elephant plays the harmonica.
An evening pause: An elephant playing an harmonica? As Shakespeare said, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,/Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”