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Rick Beato is a well-known, former, sound engineer and producer in the Pop/Rock music industry. He regularly posts interesting videos on the full range of musical genres. Here he highlights Martha Argerich (now 83 and still playing, I think), probably the greatest elderly super-virtuoso of all time. I recently posted this example from when she was just 77: Music sharing thread. Links only. No chit chat - #931 by Conrad_Melville
I find elderly virtuosity inspiring, for obvious reasons.
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The first part is fun, the last part is the “thought-provoking”.
Wonderful philosophy about music.
The pianist is child prodigy Ben Lepetit, whom I talk about here (Napster's music sharing thread. Chit chat and links - #376 by Conrad_Melville), with a couple of amazing, short performances as examples.
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A Scotsman spending the day leasurely strolling in and around the old city of Maastricht:
A few years ago me and my wife spent a weekend there and it is a lovely place to spend a day or two.
I fondly remember giving a special relativity workshop there for art and cultural theory students roughly 20 years ago.
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Oh, I just discovered this topic.
I don’t know about relaxing, but it’s certainly thought provoking. Maybe it deserves a topic of its own.
Currently, there’s only part 1 of a series.
I just discovered this amazing video featuring Ben Lepetit, at age 6, the prodigy in my previous post in this thread.
Edit: The captions don’t seem to translate when the video is in the post, so I will summarize: The show brings on Ben’s teacher. We learn that Ben can recognize music played backwards. They test him, and he correctly identifies the composition and composer of 4 pieces played backwards.
the king has returned 
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I basically love all videos that Not Just Bikes uploads, but this one about Japanese city streets might be interesting for go players who have some affinity for Japan.
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In the old days, Hollywood film composers routinely stole melodies from classical music for use in their scores. Today, musical theft has become much more sophisticated and widespread. I recently saw two different videos about different gimmicks in this area of musical fraud. The shorter versions are here: Rick Beato on “interpolation” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_9Larw-hJM) and Wings of Pegasus on quasi-deep fakes of considerable ingenuity (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNuuORmzUcM).
However, I also ran across a music lawyer who runs these videos with commentary (favorable, but illuminating on the legal points, in case you are interested in that) at almost twice the length of the original:
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Musicians have always copied each other. The French national anthem, La Marseillaise,
“interpolates” this:
while Haydn’s “Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser”
may have been inspired from the Croatian folk song Stal se jesem v jutro rano
although a theory claims the opposite.
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Those uses are legal, and the use of traditional materials is very commonplace and accepted. See, for example, Ives, Copland and others in the U.S., Brahms and Dvorak using Slavic themes, and most notably the folk investigations of Bartok and Kodaly, which were both inspirational and ethnographically important. And this barely scratches the surface.
The foregoing videos are talking about trademark and copyright violations, theft unless there are agreements in place beforehand.
It’s a weird thing, copyright law. Like you want to encourage creativity by protecting the works of artists, but an important part of creativity is copying others. 
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Patents last for 7-14 years as I understand it; that seems like a much more reasonably sane compromise between incentivizing creation by allowing the creator the chance to sell their creation, and encouraging further development by opening up the floor to everyone
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Allowance is already made for that in the law. That’s not the issue in the videos.
Pokemon gotta catch em all
Music created on or after January 1st, 1978 is protected for 70 years after the death of the author.
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FIFY 
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