Popular Music Repertoire
ABBA "Mamma Mia" "I Have A Dream" "Dancing Queen"
Abreu “Tico-Tico” Samba
Albeniz “Tango in D”
Mike Altman and Johnny “Suicide is Painless” from M*A*S*H Mandel
Anderson “Blue Tango”
Priscilla Ann “Dream”
Harold Arlen “It’s Only a Paper Moon” “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”
Asher and Wilson “God Only Knows”
Babyface, Real & “End of the Road” Simmons
Bandolim “Noites Cariocas”
John Barry “I Had a Farm In Africa” from Out of Africa
Barry & Gibb “Woman in Love”
The Beatles “All You Need Is Love” “And I Love Her” “Eleanor Rigby” “Here, There, and Everywhere” “I Saw Her Standing There” “If I Fell” “In My Life” “Michelle” “No Reply” “She’s Leaving Home” “Yesterday”
The Bee Gees “How Deep Is Your Love” “Too Much Heaven”
Notes an original CBSQ arrangement
Cherry Blossom String Quartet [email protected] www.cherryblossomstrings.com
Updated September 2010 Irving Berlin “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”
Leonard Bernstein “One Hand, One Heart” from West Side Story
Jerry Block “Sunrise, Sunset” from Fiddler on the Roof
Bunessan “Morning Has Broken”
Sammy Cahn “Time After Time”
Mariah Carey “Hero”
Hoagy Carmichael “Étoile d’Amour” (Stardust)
The Carpenters “We’ve Only Just Begun” “Yesterday Once More”
Frank Churchill “Someday My Prince Will Come” from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Ed Cobb “Tainted Love”
Arthur Cohen “Hallelujah”
Cold Play “Clocks” “In My Place” “Trouble” “Yellow” “Viva La Vida”
Bill Conti “North and South” from the T.V. Mini Series
Crewe and Goudio “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You”
David and Bacharach “Wishin’ and Hopin’”
Davis “You Are My Sunshine”
Dees and Orbison “Oh, Pretty Woman”
John Denver “Sunshine On My Shoulders”
Paul Desmond “Take Five”
Deville & Masson “Story Book Love”
Celine Dion “My Heart Will Go On” from Titanic “To Love You More”
Sherman Edwards “Wonderful! Wonderful!”
Notes an original CBSQ arrangement
Cherry Blossom String Quartet [email protected] www.cherryblossomstrings.com
Updated September 2010
Enya “Silver Inches” “Only Time”
Fekaris and Perren “I Will Survive”
Ben Folds “The Luckiest”
Betsy Foster “Mark’s Song” from the album A Dream Come True
Charles Fox “Killing Me Softly With His Song” “The Love Boat” from The Love Boat
Gade “Jalousie” Tango
Gardel “Por Una Cabeza” Tango
Gates “If”
George Gershwin “I’ve Got a Crush On You” “Love Is Here to Stay” “Love Walked In” “Someone to Watch Over Me” “Summertime” from Porgy and Bess
Irving Gordon “Unforgettable”
Graham/Loveland “You Raise Me Up”
George Hamilton Green “Fluffly Ruffles” (Song-one-Step)
Gianneo “Lamento Quichua
Ginastera “Danzas Argentina No. 2”
Vince Guaraldi “Linus and Lucy”
Bob Haggart “What’s New”
Marvin Hamlisch “The Way We Were”
Lorenz Hart “Blue Moon”
Roy Henderson “Bye Bye Blackbird”
James Horner “The Ludlows” from Legends of the Fall
Herman Hupfeld “As Time Goes By”
Jose Irizarry “Promise”
Notes an original CBSQ arrangement
Cherry Blossom String Quartet [email protected] www.cherryblossomstrings.com
Updated September 2010
Billy Joel “Just The Way You Are” “The Longest Time”
Olivia Newton John “Hopelessly Devoted To You” from Grease
John & Santo “Sleepwalk”
Buddy Johnson “Since I Fell For You”
Isham Jones “It Had to Be You”
Norah Jones “Come Away With Me”
T. Jones “The Kiss” from Last of the Mohicans
Scott Joplin “The Easy Winners” “The Entertainer” “Heliotrope Bouquet” “Leola” “Lily Queen” “Maple Leaf Rag” “Original Rags” “Something Doing” “The Strenuou s Life” “Weeping Willow”
Journey “Don’t Stop Believin”
R. Kelly “I Don’t Want To”
Kenny G “The Wedding Song”
Ben E King, Liber and “Stand By Me” Stoller
King, Rossington, “Sweet Home Alabama” VanZant, Skynyrd
Kuski and Roto “Speak, Softly Love” theme from The Godfather
Francis Lai “Love Story”
Lawrence and Coates “Sleepy Lagoon”
Lawrence and Gross “Tenderly”
Lerner and Loewe “I Could Have Danced All Night”
Morgan Lewis “How High the Moon”
Notes an original CBSQ arrangement
Cherry Blossom String Quartet [email protected] www.cherryblossomstrings.com
Updated September 2010 John Lennon “Grow Old With Me”
Lennox and Stewart “Sweet Dreams Are Made of This”
Louiguy “La Vie En Rose”
Paul McCartney “Maybe I’m Amazed”
T. McCauley and M. “Build Me Up, Buttercup” D’Abo
Sarah McLachlan “I Love You”
Michael McLean “Tango” “Serenata” “Rhumbat” “Csardas” “Fandango” “Tango Chromatique”
Madonna “Like a Prayer” “Take a Bow”
Mancini “Moon River” from Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Mandel “The Shadow of Your Smile”
Amanda McBroom “The Rose” from The Rose
Johnny Mer cer “Le Feuilles Mortes” (The Autumn Leaves)
Freddie Mercury “Bohemian Rhapsody” “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”
Bette Midler “From a Distance” “Wind Beneath My Wings”
Miller “Moonlight Serenade”
Claude Morgan “El Bimbo”
Morricone “Gabriel’s Oboe” from The Mission
Nakamura and Ei “Sukiyaki”
Alex North “Unchained Melody” from Ghost
Roy Orbison “Crying”
Twila Paris “How Beautiful”
Notes an original CBSQ arrangement
Cherry Blossom String Quartet [email protected] www.cherryblossomstrings.com
Updated September 2010 Paul Overstreet and Don “When You Say Nothing At All” Schlitz
Piazzolla “Tanguedia III”
The Platters “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes”
Cole Porter "All of You" “Anything Goes” “Begin the Beguine” "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" "I Love You" "I've Got You Under My Skin" "It's Alright with Me" “Night and Day” "What is this Thing Called Love?"
Elvis Presley “Love Me Tender”
C.E. Quick “Come Go With Me”
Radiohead “Nice Dream”
R.E.M. “Night Swimming”
Rock and Martin “Since I Don’t Have You”
Rodgers & Hammerstein “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’” from Oklahoma “Oklahoma” from Oklahoma Highlights from The Sound of Music “It Might As Well Be Spring” from State Fair “I Enjoy Being a Girl” from Flower Drum Song “The Surrey With The Fringe On Top” from Oklahoma “The Sweetest Sounds” from No Strings Highlights from South Pacific “No Other Love” from Me and Juliet “My Favorite Things” from The Sound of Music “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair” from South Pacific “I Whistle A Happy Tune” from The King and I “Processional” from The Sound of Music “Hello, Young Lovers” from The King and I
Russ ell and Barroso “Brazil”
Sager and Foster “The Prayer”
Sartori “Time to Say Goodbye”
Schmidt “Try to Remember” from The Fantastiks
Notes an original CBSQ arrangement
Cherry Blossom String Quartet [email protected] www.cherryblossomstrings.com
Updated September 2010 Aaron Schroeder and “O’ Sole Mio!” (It’s Now or Never) Wally Gold
Sigman and Maxwell “Ebb Tide”
Singleton, Snyder & “Strangers in the Night” from A Man Could Get Kaempfert Killed
Lynard Skynyrd “Free Bird”
Steiner Theme from “A Summer Place”
Sting “Every Breath You Take” “Fields of Gold”
Whitfield and Strong “Just My Imagination”
George Strait “I Cross My Heart”
Barbara Streisand “Evergreen” from A Star is Born
Studio Ghibli Selections from “Spirited Away” (Japanese animations written and directed by Selections from “Princess Mononoke” Hayao Miyazaki) Selections from “My Neighbor Totoro”
Selections from “Kiki's Delivery Service”
Selections from “Laputa: Castle in the Sky”
Selections from “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind”
Selections from “Ponyo”
Tanimura “Subaru”
Traditional arranged by “The Water is Wide” James Taylor & Don Grolnick
Joey Tempest “Final Countdown”
Justin Timberlake “Lovestoned”
Traditional Irish “Minstrel Boy” Folksong
Traditional “La Bamba”
Notes an original CBSQ arrangement
Cherry Blossom String Quartet [email protected] www.cherryblossomstrings.com
Updated September 2010 Twain & Lange “From This Moment On”
U2 “All I Want is You”
Udell and Geld “Sealed With a Kiss”
Ungar “Ashokan Farewell” from Ken Burns’ Civil War Mini-series
Vange lis “Chariots of Fire”
Various "My Girl" "Stop! In the Name Of Love" "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" "I'll Be There"
The Verve “Bittersweet Symphony”
Villa -Lobos “Bachianas Brazileiras No. 5”
Villoldo “El Choclo” Tango
Harry Warren “At Last”
Andrew Lloyd Webber “All I Ask of You” from Phantom of the Opera “Love Changes Everything” from Aspects of Love “Memory” from the Broadway Musical Cats “Music of the Night” from Phantom of the Opera
David Weiss, Hugo “Can’t Help Falling In Love” Peretti and Luigi Creatore
Weiss and Thiele “What a Wonderful World”
John Williams “Can You Read My Mind” from Superman
Meredith Willson “Goodnight, My Someone” from The Music Man “Till There was You” from The Music Man
Brian Wilson “California Girls”
Notes an original CBSQ arrangement
Cherry Blossom String Quartet [email protected] www.cherryblossomstrings.com
Updated September 2010