Dan Licht – Dexter Suite
An evening pause: This performance is especially interesting in its unusual use of instruments.
Hat tip Danae.
Tag: music
Tina Arena & Kane Alexander – I Want To Spend My Lifetime Loving You
An evening pause: For my wife, Diane.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
John Denver – I Remember You
<An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Jay Proctor (Jay & the Techniques) – Apple, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie
An evening pause: Performed live on television, 1999.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Lennon and Maisy – Ho Hey
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae.
Baby it’s cold outside
An evening pause: From the 1949 musical comedy Neptune’s Daughter, with Esther Williams, Ricardo Montalbán, Red Skelton, and Betty Garrett.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Judy Collins – The Blizzard
An evening pause: Performed live in Aspen, Colorado, 1989.
Hat tip Danae.
Chris Hadfield, Barenaked Ladies, the Wexford Gleeks – I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing)
An evening pause: The first space-to-Earth musical collaboration.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Carion Quintet – Jacques Ibert’s trois pièces brèves, I. allegro
An evening pause: Recorded live October 20, 2012 at Christians Church, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Hat tip Danae.
ABBA – Waterloo
An evening pause: Performed live for the first time on April 6, 1974 during the Eurovision Song Contest 1974, winning the contest for the then essentially unknown ABBA.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Joss Stone – Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Jon Lord – Miles Away
An evening pause: Stick with it. The playing and music is superb.
Hat tip Danae.
Luciano Pavarotti – Ave Maria
An evening pause: This man knew how to sing.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Olivia Newton-John – Take me home Country Roads
An evening pause: I can never get enough of this John Denver song, a fact that anyone who has every spent any time in West Virginia will understand completely. This beautiful performance by Olivia Newton-John was performed live in 1972.
Bohemian Rhapsody on 111-year-old organ
An evening pause: It is the quality of the sound that especially impresses me.
Hat tip James Mallamace.
Leonid & Friends – Chicago’s 25 or 6 to 4
An evening pause: A great cover by a group of Russians, who did it, as they say, “as a tribute to the one of the greatest bands in the world!”
Hat tip Frank Kelly.
U2 – New Years Day
An evening pause: A little late but who cares.
Hat tip Danae.
A New Year
An evening pause: Written by Michael Hunter Ochs and performed to celebrate the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashahah, this song applies now as well. As it says, “As long as there are stars above, there comes a new year.”
Johann Strauss Sr. – Radetzky March
An evening pause: Performed in 2011 by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra as part of its annual New Year’s Eve performance.
I like how little conducting the conductor does. This is music his orchestra can play in their sleep.
Hat tip Danae.
Ørkenens sønner – Dance in the fog
An evening pause: Some true silliness for this truly silly season, between the holidays.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who notes that this Danish comedy group’s name translates to “Sons of the Desert” in English.