POTD: What The World Needs Now
The Burt Bacharach/Hal David classic is resurrected by dozens of young people who recorded their parts while sheltering at home, and the result is beautiful.
POTD: The Dinner Feeder
This Picture Of The Day comes from Joseph Herscher, who creates clever machines in his Brooklyn apartment to solve everyday problems with Rube-Goldberg-like designs. His latest is a device that feeds him dinner.
POTD: Beethoven’s Ninth
While sheltering at home, members of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra perform the finale of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (“Ode To Joy”).
POTD: Kelli O’Hara
The Broadway star appears on a YouTube show to explain a problem she encountered when doing “The King And I” in London — and then sings one of the memorable songs from that classic musical.
POTD: I Laughed Til I Cried
Austin Tichenor, one-third of the Reduced Shakespeare Company has taken to YouTube and posted this clever ditty he wrote and performed in the RSC’s “The Complete History Of Comedy (abridged).” As a longtime fan, I’ve made it my Picture Of The Day.
POTD: Tom Lehrer
Picture Of The Day: How does COVID-19 spread quickly when people don’t stay away from each other? The great Tom Lehrer knew!