Tag: music
12 Girls Band
Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush -Don’t Give Up
Celtic Woman – Danny Boy
Bach’s Sheep May Safely Graze
Bill Staines – River
Beach Boys – Sloop John B
Muppets – Java
Mister Sandman – cover by Pomplamoose
Cheap flights
Loreena McKennitt – The Dark Night Of The Soul
An evening pause: A song based on the 15th century poem by St. John of the Cross (San Juan de la Cruz).
Upon a darkened night
the flame of love was burning in my breast
And by a lantern bright
I fled my house while all in quiet rest
Full lyrics here.
Move on from Sunday in the Park with George
An evening pause: Bernadette Peters and Mandy Patinkin sing “Move On” from Steven Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George.
Stop worrying where you’re going.
Move on.
If you can know where you’re going,
You’ve gone.
Just keep moving on.
I chose and my world was shaken.
So what?
The choice may have been mistaken,
The choosing was not.
You have to move on.
Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Talk to me of Mendocino
An evening pause: Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Talk to me of Mendocino
I bid farewell to the state of ol’ New York,
My home away from home.
In the state of New York I came of age
when first I started roaming.
The Hanson Sisters – Shenandoah
An evening pause: I know this was the song from yesterday’s evening pause, but I found both performances to be so nicely done that I wanted to share them both.
Madrigals – Shenandoah
Jasmine Flower
Clancy Brothers & Robbie O’Connell- Finnegan’s Wake
Skeeter Davis — The End Of The World, recorded 1965
3 year old Jonathan conducting to the 4th movement of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony
David Lanz & Paul Speer – Ode to a Dark Star
An evening pause: The music is beautiful, but the images tell us how far astronomy has changed our perception of the universe in the last few decades.
Anna Russell – The Ring Cycle explained
An evening pause: Anna Russell, in one of her last concerts, explains Wagner’s Ring cycle. You can see parts 2 and 3 of the entire comedy routine here and here. Trust me, it is worth watching all three parts, even if you know nothing about opera.
Tommy Emmanuel – Guitar boogie
Allan Sherman – Hail to thee, Fat Persons!
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Home (live @ kcrw)
John Denver – Back Home Again
Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal
Some enchanted evening
An evening pause: The simple, poetic words of Oscar Hammerstein to the music of Richard Rogers, sung by Brian Stokes Mitchell at Carnegie Hall, 2005.
Who can explain it?
Who can tell you why?
Fools give you reasons.
Wise men never try.
Northern Lights
An evening pause: When the Sun gets active, such as the solar flare of February 15, 2011, the sky in the high latitudes gives us the world’s best light show.
Makem and Clancy – Get Drunk
An evening pause: Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers at the National Stadium in Dublin February 1977.