All Manner of Quotations
Vita Sackville-West wrote:
“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by”. By the same token, it is necessary to gather these quotations collectively for reference if the mind is to stay witty and sharp. They also have the quality of being provocative and biting with the brevity of words, like
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. Or charmingly disarming like
We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm. (Winston Churchill) All good quotations have on thing in common - they drive home a nail by hitting the nail on the head with a single blow as opposed to, say, a convoluted way of putting forward a point. We call a spade a spade, a rose a rose.
Sardonic wit and humour will not be overlooked. Human nature being what it is, the insult gag is most popular when directed at someone else, since no one other than the hapless victim is identified with it. Conversely, it has the rewarding effect by the simple expedient of switching from the third-person personal pronoun to the first. That way, it characterizes mankind’s failings collectively.
Finally, if you can’t think of a smart, snappy retort when caught in a tight situation, a slight yawn is just as good. Or, sometimes, the only defense against stupidity is silence.
Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. There were man’s first, immeasurable feast of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past. (Leo Rosten)
It’s only words and words are all I have to take you heart away. (from a Beatles lyrics)
No one can accuse him of being scatterbrained. He hasn’t any brains to scatter.
She has a pretty little head. For a head, it is pretty little.
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. (G.K. Chesterton)
The real art if conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. (Dorothy Nevell)
Many people who have the gift of gab don’t know how to wrap it up. (Arnold Glasow)
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. (R. Tagore)
Sanskrit proverb:
Look to this day
For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision,
but today, well lived,
makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day.
Amy time he get an idea in his head, he has the whole thing in a nutshell.
He says he has a mind of his own. He’s welcome to it. Who else would want it?
The reason people blame things on previous generation is that there’s only one other choice. (Doug Larson)
Optimists are nostalgic about the future. (Chicago Tribute)
Pessimists always take the cynic route. (Wall street Journal)
May you look back to the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future. (Delacorte)
An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. (James Michener)
Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe. (Gabriela Mistral)
Day slipped the sun in an envelope of clouds;
Night sealed it with a star. (Joyce Andrews)
Dawn crept in tie-dyed majesty through the shadows. (Peter H. Capstick)
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. (Arthur Ashe)
Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself. (Marion Bradley)
The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies, probably because they are generally the same people. (C.K. Chesterton)
He one guy who must have a sixth sense. There is no evidence of the other five.
Told by an insurance agent that his company pays over $5 million for broken arms and legs, he asked, “What do they do with all of them?”
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. (C.K. Chesterton)
Nothingcan keep an argument going like two persons who aren’t sure what they’re arguing about. (O.A. Battista)
Points of View:
I’m trusting. You’re naïve. He’s a fool. – Lori Abrams
I’m quite. You’re unassertive. He’s a wimp. – Alexandra Frank
I’m sensitive. You’re fussy. He’s neurotic. – Michele Simos
I’m concerned. You’re curious. He’s nosy. – Lori Abrams
I’m thirty. You’re a it tight. He’s cheap. – Rosemary Proehl
We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon. (Konrad Adenaeur)
Some things have to be believed to be seen. (Ralph Hodgson)
In the end, the poem is not a thing we see; it is rather a light which we may see – and what we see is life. (Robert Penn Warren)
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. (Mark Twain)
What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of opinion. (Robert Turgot)
An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. O.A. Battista
He thinks he’s out of this word. Everyone wishes he were.
She’s got tired of trying to get a pearl out of an oyster, so she smartened up – and got a diamond out of an old crab.
Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.
-- Robyn Davidson
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.
-- Frederick Henry Hedge
The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
-- Marcel Achard
The citizen's first duty is unrest.
She resembles an insurance policy – both have cash surrender value.
A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.
-- Samuel Grafton
Every act of dishonesty has at least two victims: the one we think of as the victim, and the perpetrator as well. Each little dishonesty ... makes another little rotten spot somewhere in the perpetrator's psyche.
-- Lesley Conger
I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
-- Napolean Hill
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
-- Frank Moore Colby
We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
-- Walter Savage Landor
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Intelligence is when you spot a flaw in your boss's reasoning. Wisdom is when you refrain from pointing it out.
-- James Dent
He has made an art of not picking up the check. You’ve really got to hand it to him.
Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks; and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks.
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
What I'm concerned about is the people who don't dwell on the meaninglessness of their lives, or the meaningfulness of it - who just pursue mindless entertainment.
-- Michael K. Hooker
He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.
-- Edwin W. Edwards
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
-- Peter T. McIntyre
Sometimes fashion moves from the moment to the moment to the moment. But where is the integrity in design?
There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
-- Oscar Levant
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.
-- Meg Chittenden
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed --I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself.
-- Georges Clemenceau
While he felt like a victim, he acted like a hero.
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power."
-- William Henry Harrison
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television."
-- Aldo Leopold
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honestly out of countenance any day of the week, if there is anything to get got by it.
If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night."
-- Dicky Barrett
I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts."
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
-- Henrik Ibsen
Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy
When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.'"
-- Jerry Lewis
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.
-- Richard Harris
Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision. -- Robyn Davidson
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past. -- Frederick Henry Hedge
The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. -- Marcel Achard
The citizen's first duty is unrest.
A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye. -- Samuel Grafton
I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
-- Napolean Hill
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours. -- Frank Moore Colby
We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier. -- Walter Savage Landor
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Intelligence is when you spot a flaw in your boss's reasoning. Wisdom is when you refrain from pointing it out. -- James Dent
Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks; and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks.
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
What I'm concerned about is the people who don't dwell on the meaninglessness of their lives, or the meaningfulness of it - who just pursue mindless entertainment. -- Michael K. Hooker
He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes. -- Edwin W. Edwards
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. -- Peter T. McIntyre
Sometimes fashion moves from the moment to the moment to the moment. But where is the integrity in design?
There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. -- Oscar Levant
Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.
-- Meg Chittenden
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed --I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself. -- Georges Clemenceau
While he felt like a victim, he acted like a hero.
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power." -- William Henry Harrison
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television." -- Aldo Leopold
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honestly out of countenance any day of the week, if there is anything to get got by it.
The only dates he’s interested in are the one with no apron strings attached.
He’s constantly in love instead of constant in love.
He prefers a girl who’s sexy, not brainy. He says when he feels intellectual, there’s always the public library.
If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night." -- Dicky Barrett
I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts."
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. -- Henrik Ibsen
I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.
Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice. -- Richard Harris
The man who is everywhere is never anywhere.
The age of Grace began in mid-Acts, after the conversion of the Apostle Paul. It is through his letters alone that we learn about the dispensation of Grace, about Israel being set aside, with Jew and Gentile being saved into the Body of Christ. It was Paul who taught 'all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses' (Acts 21:21). It was also Paul who proclaimed the forgiveness of sins 'to all who would believe' in Christ, adding that 'ye could not be justified by the law of Moses' (Acts 13:38-39). The measuring rod of grace tells us that the age of Grace began with Paul, then continued through those who were saved and subsequently carried on His God-given doctrines of grace. -- John Fredericksen
He told a friend he was defeated because of his youth. Said the friend, “But you’re over sixty years and your youth is spent.” Sadly, he explained, “That’s the trouble. They found out how I spent it.”
Offering candy to his girlfriend, he said, “Sweets to the sweet.” She thanked him and asked, “Won’t you have some of these nuts?”
An invasion of armies can be resisted but not when an idea whose time has come. (Victor Hugo)
Though is action in rehearsal. (Sigmund Freud)
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye (from The Little Prince)
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death: ourselves. (Eda Leshan)
Our language has wisely sensed the two side of being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. (Paul Tillich)
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. (Ellen Burstyn)
Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use. (Peter Latham)
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn’t blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won’t cheat, than you know he never will. (John D. MacDonald)
Integrity has no need of rules. (Albert Camus)
What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are. (Edgar Z. Friedenberg)
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny. (Eric Hopper in The Passionate State of Mind)
No one beneath you can offend you. No one your equal would. (Jan L. Wells)
Maybe taking ourselves for somebody else means that we cannot bear to see ourselves as we are. (Albert Brie)
Men go aboard to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion, of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. (St. Augustine)
Know yourself: Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. (Ann Landers)
I don’t want everyone to like me. I should think less of myself if some people did. (Henry James)
We may not return the affection if those who like us, but we always respect their good judgement. (Libbie Fudim)
Misfortune one can endure –they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one’s own faults – ah, there is the sting of life. (Oscar Wilde)
The most difficult secret for a man to keep is the opinion he has of himself. (Marcel Pagnol)
Appearances give us more pleasure than reality, especially when they help to satisfy our egos. (Emile Chevalier)
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence. (Andre Maurois)
We have to learn to be out own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our worst enemies. (Roderick Thorp)
We probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do. (Olin Miller)
And The Beat Goes On ...
Human beings have been inspired to make music from the earliest times and more people are doing just that while an even greater number of listeners are out there providing economic stimulus to the music industry. Fifty years ago, no one could have predicted how music could become so easily accessible to a broader public and in so many different ways and means.
My preference in music is primarily ‘classical’ rather than ‘popular’ music. Music started out as what was music was music. What was not, was not. Now, however, it has been labeled 'good' or 'bad'. A local radio station went on air to sloganize theirs as 'good music; good life'. So what's bad music? Any music not to your taste is deemed bad music, and therefore bad life?
In spite of the widespread diffusion, music remains an enigma. For those who love music, to be deprived of it is an act of unusual cruelty because music has become so central a part of life even to listeners who, like myself, cannot read musical notation and have never attempted to learn an instrument.
In the context of our Asian culture, many people assume that the arts are luxuries rather than necessity and that words and pictures are the only means by which influence can be exerted on the human mind. This is why music is seldom accorded a prominent place in our education that is utilitarian and directed toward obtaining gainful employment. The idea that music is powerful and can actually affect both the individuals and the state for good or ill has never been contemplated. Music is said to soothe the savage beast and can be used to stimulate mass emotion. The physical responses that music brings about or bring out in different people at the same time are about the same. This explains why it is able to draw groups together and create a sense of unity.
In the culture dominated by the visual and the verbal, the significance of music and what it can do for the mind is overlooked. Musicians and lovers of music know that music brings us more than sensuous pleasure. It penetrates the core of one’s physical being. Like being in love, it can temporarily transform our whole existence. Yet, what it brings is hard to define because the link between music and the reality of the human emotion is not transparent.
The art of painting originates from the human need to understand the external world through vision. The Palaeolithic cavemen drew and painted animals on the wall of their caves in an attempt to capture the image of the animal and probably felt they could better control their prey. The more detailed the artist’s perceptions of the forms he depicts, the better the chance of a successful hunt. Like painting, the art of literature is understood to have developed from an activity that was adaptively useful – the primitive story-teller who gave his people a sense coherence and unity through myths embodying its traditional values and moral norms. But as for music, what use is there?
If music is a universal language as it often claimed to be, why don’t we see any Westerners excelling in music originating from our part of the world whereas we have musicians from this part of the world (China, Japan, S. Korea and Taiwan) who excel as practitioners and performers of classical music from the west?
While music may be regarded as a form of communication between people, what it communicates, other than emotions, is not obvious. It is not usually representational and certainly not propositional. It does not sharpen our perceptions of the external world, nor does it imitate life in a way that art is said to. It does not put forward theories about the world or preach morality. It is incapable of conveying information in the same way that language does. Perhaps therein lies the beauty of music, a beauty we do not see but feel intensely.
Here are some works of the great masters of classical music that strike a responsive cord in me. The list is by no means complete or exhaustive.
Beethoven’s 5th symphony: opens with one of the most portentous rhythmic ideas in all music. The short-short-short-long motif supposedly depicts fate knocking on the door, in which case, it will be faith answering it. One other ‘massive’ opening I can think of is Tchaikovsky’s First piano concerto, the stupendous piano chords that could almost split the piano apart. And in lighter vein.
Beethoven’s music is not mere entertainment but a moral force. His music is said to reflect his powerful and tortured personality. He used classical forms and techniques and infused new power and intensity into them. In his works, tension and excitement are built up into an explosive force. One might say he hammered out this symphony systemically and wielded the four movements as unified whole, making it an exhilarating listening experience.
There is the other facet to Beethoven’s music that isn’t all stormy and forceful; it is gentle and lyrical. These are his even-numbered symphonies, like the pastoral no.6. In contrast, the odd numbers are stirring and agitating. That is however only a generalization because each of his nine symphonies is unique in style and character and it is matter of personal preference which you consider his masterpiece. In the last movement of his last symphony, he introduced a chorus with four vocal soloists and had them all singing at the same time and still be heard individually. This is possible only in music. (Ode To Joy - 2nd movement)
Philharmonic Orchestra of Jalisco, Mexico
Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra. Considered the composer’s most popular work, it treats the instruments of the orchestra in a soloistic manner, hence the title ‘concerto for orchestra’. It is showpiece for the collective and individualistic virtuosity of the orchestra. It is a work of contrasting styles, changing moods and colours, displaying jest, sternness, thrust and cut, emotional intensity, memorable themes and arresting syncopations. One is held spellbound from beginning to end. Equally enrapturing is listening to his Music for Strings, Percussion and Celestra, another composition in the same vein yet having a distinct approach.
Nijisky in the ballet Prelude to The Afternoon of Faun
Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun by Debussy evokes fleeting moods and misty atmosphere.
It is unlike any other music in being highly impressionist.
The prelude begins with an unaccompanied flute melody with vague pulses and tonality, making it dream-like.
It seems improvisatory.
As it progresses, the music swells sensuously with a mosaic of sounds and subsides in voluptuous exhaustion.
The music ends from afar like the way it begins… with weightlessness and fluidity.
The Russian dancer, Nijinsky, gained spurious fame for his erotic portrayal of a faun basking in the afternoon heat based on his own choreography.
Tchaikovsky’s Pathetique: (In this footage, Charles Hazlewood explores 'Romeo And Juliet' and The Pathetique on BBC 4. and explains why you need no specialist classical music knowledge to enjoy the works. More video can be found at http://www.open2.net/tchaikovsky)
Concert promoters all over the world know that classical music lovers have an insatiable appetite for the music of Tchaikovsky and all they have to do to ensure fat box-office taking is to include at least one of his works as a crowd-puller. The secret to the composer’s popularity is in his profusion of strikingly expressive melody, and melody, as a component of music, is the most appealing to the ear.
We remember most and hum what has melody in it. More than just a master tactician, his works are full of lyricism and orchestral colours.
He gave equally importance treatment to all instruments of the orchestra and knew how to coax each instrument to sing as individuals.
Although not necessary my favourite of his 6 symphonies because of its inclination to melancholy, I consider it be most ‘loaded’ in emotional contents - a symphony arising from deep personal feelings, an expression of ‘life, love, disappointment and death’. He was confronted by the death of his sister and three of his friends. The nick given to this work is misleading for its association with the English pathetic as weakness when in fact it is a work of pathos in the original Greek sense.
The opening movement begins with a very low-pitched woody sound from a wind instrument the name of which presumably takes after a primate probably because that’s how a baboon coos or let out air.
Anyway, the woody melody leads to the strings section picking up and introduces a love theme. So romantically melodic is this love theme it has been vocalized as “story of a starry night’ not just in English but in Mandarin as well. I remember this musical theme was used to good effect in Chinese dramas aired over Rediffusion whenever there was a need to convey heart-felt anguish for which words will not suffice.
The love theme continues to be heard intermittently sometimes softly and sometimes loudly until, unexpectedly, a full-throat outcry from the entire orchestra pierces the air with startling effect. A hymn-like burial melody follows and the love theme resurfaces again, bringing the first movement to a gentle conclusion.
The second movement is in the form of a waltz, airy and light but at the same time halting in character going neither forward nor backward. It is maimed, dragging its feet.
The third movement sounds like a vivacious march progressing with increasing tension and hectic intensity that the full orchestra must necessarily arrest with a tremendous climax before mass hysteria sets in.
I do not know what to make out of the final movement except that one get the feeling of descending into depths of sorrow of the heart with agonized phrases, turmoil and struggles to find release or escape. A love fated to fail even before it’s began. I don’t know how others see it but to reiterate, it is melancholic in character and best avoided when your emotional immunity is low.
Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain captures powerfully all the enchantment of Spain and the scent of its exotic nights. One is literarily transported if not implanted in the musical folk culture of Spain. Rich in spirited dance rhythms that flare up from time to time through out the work, this piece of work closes in the dreamy opening mood the way it started. What stands out is the occasional pounding on the piano and beating of the drum in unison and yet both instruments are not regarded as ‘soloists’ but incorporated into the orchestra. With each listening, it is an entrancing experience that repeats itself. It never tires with its passionate sensuousness that sends your heart beat pulsating. (No video presentation could be found in You-Tube. However, The Miller's Dance from The three Cornered Hat typifies the exhilarating music of Falla and an extraordinary Ritual Fire Dance on the cello.
Spanish music, largely folk-music, owes it attractions to rhythms that are full of vitality, turns of phrase and colours as displayed in a flamenco dance. Spanish music exerts a captivating charm, languid and fiery by turn. It has the gipsy in them. This explains why a large volume of Spanish music is written elsewhere. In this respect, French composers were always good at evoking the atmosphere of places they did not know personally. Chabrier’s Espana is held as a classic evocation of Spanish rhythm that is genuine-sounding. So were Lalo’s symphonie espagnole and Bizet’s Carmen in successfully capturing the Spanish idiom.
Other notables in the ‘Spanish’ genre include:
Massenet: Le Cid
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez. Rodrigo wrote some of the best-known music for the instrument identified with Spain – the guitar.
Granados: Spanish Dance No. 4, 5 (Andaluza ) & 10
Falla: Love The Magician & The Three-cornered Hat
Albeniz: Suite Espanola, Tango, Intermezzo from Goyescas
Tarregar: Recuerdos de la alhambra
Ravel: Suite Espanola & Bolero
What I consider to be some gems in the classical repertoire:
Rondo Capriccioso, Havanaise by Saint-Saens
Poeme by Chausson (a sensuous and melancholy work for violin and orchestra)
Tzigane, Pavane by Ravel
Arabesque 1, Golliwog’s cakewalk, Intermezzo from “Thai” by Debussy
Adagio for strings by Barber
Invitation to the dance by Weber
Dance of the hours by Ponchielli
Intermezzo from Thai by Massanet
L’Arlesienne suite two by Bizet
Andante for String Quartet No.2 and Polovtsian Dances by Borodin
Die Moldua by Semetana
Serenade by Torselli
Romance of violin and orchestra by Beethoven
Fantasia on Greensleeves, The Lark Ascending and English Folk Song Suite by Vaughan Willaims
A Shropshire Lad and The Banks of Green Willow by Butterworth
Intermezzo by Mascagni
18th variation from Paganini variations by Rachmanioff
Schon Rosmarin, tambourin chinois by Kreisler
The compostions of Albert Ketelbey
