Jon Lord – Miles Away
An evening pause: Stick with it. The playing and music is superb.
Hat tip Danae.
Tag: music
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.
CUFI Cornerstone Singers – Hava Nagila Texas Style
An evening pause: Here’s some more Jewish music to celebrate Hanukkah, though somewhat different from yesterday’s piece.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Adam Shugar – Hanukkah Overture for String Orchestra and Clarinet
An evening pause: A fitting musical piece in the middle of Hannukkah. Performed by the Orchestre Nouvelle Génération.
Normally I don’t post orchestra performances filmed in their entirety from only one wide shot, as this is. I make an exception here for three reasons: 1. The music is good. 2. It is not well known, and should be. 3. Unlike most orchestras, this string orchestra performs while standing, and the high angle looking down allows you to see them all as they play together, almost like a choreographed dance. It works.
Hat tip Danae.
Ben Abraham and Guests – O come, O come, Emmanuel
An evening pause: Recorded at The Thornbury Theatre, December 13, 2013. The guests are Jane Patterson, John Flanagan, Tash Parker and Wally De Backer.
In good will I — a secular humanist born a Jew — wish all of my Christian brethren a very Merry Christmas.
Kaylee Rodgers & Killard House Special School – Hallelujah
An evening pause: As noted at the webpage where I found this video, “Kaylee Rodgers has autism and ADHD, but has been growing in confidence with every performance after starting to sing at the age of just three.”
Rod Stewart – Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Gloria Estefan – Turn the Beat Around
An evening pause: Let’s take a break from Christmas music.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
A Very Murray Christmas – Fairytale of New York
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan – El Pastor
An evening pause: The solo is by Arturo Vargas. Mariachi Vargas is accompanied by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Querétaro.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace. The lyrics, in English and Spanish, are below the fold. It is definitely worthwhile to read them during the song.
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Joe Satriani – Midnight
An evening pause: Performed live July 15, 1988 at the Montreux Jazz Festival.
Hat tip Insomnious.
Louis Armstrong – When The Saints Go Marching In
An evening pause: As the video says at the start, in quoting Duke Ellington, “He was born poor, died rich, and never hurt anyone along the way.”
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Shonen Knife – Sweet Christmas
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who wrote, “From Japan a girl group named after a boy’s pocket knife.”