Tag: music
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.
Who will buy?
My Valentine
Tuba Solo Fnugg Blue, played by Øystein Baadsvik
Music in space
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, Teenage Dirtbag
Bryn Terfel sings two classic folk songs
The Beatles – Happy Birthday
Ode to Forgetfulness
Glenn Miller Orchestra – Chattanooga Choo Choo
Don Slepian – Next Time
An evening pause: Music by Don Slepian (1984). Graphics: analog video synthesizer.