Repertoires

All OBRIEN STRINGS ensembles play the most requested music for all ceremonies and special occasions. We may already know a song or piece that is not yet on the list; please request what you want. Kate enjoys arranging music in all styles for her ensembles.

Scroll down or click on the buttons to the right for each ensemble to see lists of traditional classical selections plus current popular rock, jazz, Broadway, ethnic, romantic, country, folk, holiday, children’s songs and more.

OBRIEN STRING TRIO
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WEDDING CEREMONY
Pachelbel - Canon in D
Wagner - Bridal March
Mendelssohn - Wedding March
Abide With Me
Amazing Grace
Bach - Air on the G string
Bach - Arioso
Bach - Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring
Bach - Sheep May Safely Graze
Bach - Sleepers Awake (Wachet auf)
Bach-Gounod - Ave Maria
Beethoven - Ode to Joy
Bernstein - One Hand, One Heart
Buon Giorno Principessa (Life is Beautiful)
Catholic Mass, Celtic Alleluia
Charpentier - Prelude to Te Deum
Clarke - Trumpet Voluntary
Dodi Li
Erev Shel Shoshanim
Gabriel’s Oboe (The Mission)
Hana'ava Babanot
Franck - Panis Angelicus
Handel - Lascia Chio Pianga
Handel - Queen of Sheba
Handel - Royal Fireworks
Handel - Water Music
Haydn - St. Anthony's Chorale
How Great Thou Art
Humperdinck - Evening Prayer (Hansel & Gretel)
Irish Wedding Song
Lord Bless Thee and Keep Thee
Mazel Tov
Mendelssohn - Wedding March
Mouret - Rondeau
Mozart- Alleluia
Mozart - Ave verum corpus
Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusic
Pachelbel - Canon in D
The Prayer (Sager + Foster)
Prayer of St. Francis
Purcell - Trumpet Tune
Romeo & Juliet (A Time for Us)
Schubert - Ave Maria
Schubert - Kyrie (Mass in G)
Simon Tov
Simple Gifts
Telemann - La Grace
Vivaldi - Four Seasons
Wagner - Bridal March
Wedding Song (Stookey)
You Raise Me Up (Josh Grobin)
The Bride Cuts the Cake

CLASSICS
Albeniz - Tango
Albinoni - Adagio
Bach - If Thou Art With Me
Bach - Brandenburg Concertos
Bach - Trios after Three Part Inventions
Bach - Suite #2, #3 - selections
Barber - Adagio
Bizet - Carillon (L'Arlesienne Suite)
Beethoven - Minuet in G
Beethoven - Allegro con brio (Trio Op.3)
Beethoven - String Trios
Boccherini - String Trios
Brahms - Hungarian Dance #5
Chopin - Nocturne (Op. 9 #2)
Debussy - Claire de Lune
Dohnanyi - Marcia (Serenade Op. 10)
Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance
Handel - Largo from Xerxes
Handel - String Trios
Haydn - London Trios
Haydn - String Trios
Kreisler - Liebesleid
Liszt - Liebestraum
Mascagni - Intermezzo
Massenet - Meditation
Monti - Czardas
Mozart - Divertimenti
Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusic
Mozart - String Trios
Pleyel - String Trios
Piazzolla - Revirado
Puccini - Nessun Dorma (Turandot)
Puccini - O Mio Bambino Caro
Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody
Rameau - Gavotte
Reichardt - Trio in Bb
Saint-Saens - The Swan
Schubert - Serenade
Schubert - Trio in Bb
Schumann - Traumerei
Taneiev - String Trio
Telemann - Minuets
Tschaikovsky - Pas d’action (Sleeping Beauty)
Tschaikovsky - Sugar Plum Fairy
Tschaikovsky - Serenade for Strings

OBRIEN STRING DUO
(Violin & Cello)
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WEDDING CEREMONY
Wagner - Bridal March
Mendelssohn - Wedding March
Pachelbel - Canon in D
Clarke - Trumpet Voluntary
A Time for Us (Romeo and Juliet)
Amazing Grace
Bach - Air on the G string
Bach - Arioso
Bach - Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring
Bach - Sheep May Safely Graze
Bach - Sleepers Awake (Wachet Auf)
Be Thou My Vision (Trad. Irish melody)
Beethoven - Ode to Joy
Bernstein - One Hand, One Heart
Brahms/Haydn - St. Anthony’s Chorale
Franck - Panis Angelicus
Handel - Queen of Sheba
Handel - Royal Fireworks
Handel - Water Music
Mazel Tov - breaking of the glass
Morning Has Broken
Mouret - Premiere Suite
Mozart - Ave verum corpus
The Prayer
Prayer of St. Francis
Purcell - Trumpet Tune
Schubert - Ave Maria
Simon Tov - breaking of the glass
Simple Gifts
Telemann - La Grace
Vivaldi - Four Seasons
The Wedding Song - Stookey

POPULAR
All I Ask of You
All you Need is Love (Beatles)
Anniversary Waltz
Ashokan’s Farewell
Can’t Stop (Chili Peppers)
Colors of the Wind (Pocohantas)
Con Te Partiro (Time to Say Goodbye)
Dill Pickles Rag
Don’t Stop Believin’ (Journey)
Entertainer Rag
Fascination
Greensleeves
Happy Together (Turtles)
Over the Rainbow
Fiddler on the Roof
Irish Airs, Jigs, Hornpipes

OBRIEN STRING QUARTET
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WEDDING CEREMONY
Pachelbel - Canon in D
Wagner - Bridal Chorus
Mendelssohn - Wedding March
Bach - Air on the G string
Bach - Arioso
Bach Gounod - Ave Maria
Bach - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Bach - Sheep May Safely Graze
Beethoven - Ode to Joy
Bernstein - One Hand, One Heart
Charpentier - Prelude to Te Deum
Clarke - Trumpet Voluntary
Franck - Panis Angelicus
Handel - Aria
Handel - Queen of Sheba
Handel - Royal Fireworks
Handel - Vivace
Handel - Water Music
Haydn - St. Anthony's Chorale
How Great Thou Art
Mass of Creation (Catholic)
Mazel Tov
Mendelssohn - Wedding March
Mouret - Premiere Suite
Mozart - Ave verum corpus
Mozart - March (Marriage of Figaro)
Mozart - A major Piano Sonata
Pachelbel - Canon in D
Prayer of St. Francis
Purcell - Trumpet Tune
Processional from Sound of Music
Schubert - Ave Maria
Simon Tov
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Wagner - Bridal Chorus
Webber - Pie Jesu

CLASSICS
Albinoni - Adagio
Bach - Badinerie
Bach - If Thou Art With Me
Bach - Brandenburg Concerti
Bach - Double Concerto in d minor
Bach - Bourree from Cello Suite #3
Bach - Sheep May Safely Graze
Barber - Adagio
Beethoven - Minuet in G
Brahms - Hungarian Dance #5
Debussy - Reverie
Delibes - Flower Duet
Dvorak - Humoresque
Handel - Largo
Handel - Water Music
Haydn - God Save St. Francis
Kreisler - Liebeslied
Mascagni - Intermezzo
Massenet - Meditation (Thais)
Mendelssohn - Canzonetta
Mendelssohn - Song Without Words
Mozart - Allelulah
Mozart - Divertimento #1
Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusic
Mozart - The Hunt Quartet
Puccini - Nessun Dorma
Puccini - O mio bambino caro
Schubert - Moment musical
Schumann - Traumeri
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons

OBRIEN STRING QUARTET
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POPULAR
A Time for Us (Romeo+Juliet)
All I Ask of You
All You Need is Love (Beatles)
Anniversary Waltz
Ashokan Farewell
Auld Lang Syne
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Beauty and the Beast
Bittersweet Symphony
Blue Danube Waltz
Blue Tango
Buon Giorno Principessa
Colonel Bogey March
Come Back to Sorrento
La Comparsita (tango)
Con Te Partiro
Danny Boy
Don’t Stop Believin’ (Journey)
The Entertainer Rag
For the Love of a Princess
Greensleeves
Happy Birthday
Hava Nagilah
Ice Castles
Irish Washerwoman jig
It Don't Mean a Thing
The Luckiest (Folds)
Music of the Night
My Fair Lady
New York, New York
One Hand, One Heart
Over the Rainbow
Pomp and Circumstance
Romeo and Juliet
Send in the Clowns
Simple Gifts
Someone to Watch Over Me
Something (Beatles)
Somewhere
Star Spangled Banner
Sunrise, Sunset
Syncopated Clock
Tico, Tico Samba
Yellow (Cold Play)
You're a Grand Old Flag
Holiday songs and carols

OBRIEN STRINGS PLUS TRUMPET
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Albinoni - Concertos for Trumpet
Bach - Bist Du Bie Mir
Bach - Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring
Beethoven - Ode to Joy
Bernstein - Make Your Garden Grow
Celtic Alleluia
Charpentier -Te Deum
Clarke - Trumpet Voluntary
Franck - Panis Angelicus
Handel - Lascia Chio Pianga
Handel - Royal Fireworks
Handel - Water Music
Haydn - St. Anthony's Chorale
Mendelssohn - Wedding March
Mouret - Rondeau
Mozart - Ave Verum
Puccini - Nessun Dorma
Puccini - O mio bambino
Purcell - Trumpet Tune
Rutter - Gaelic Blessing
Schubert - Ave Maria
Stanley - Trumpet Voluntary
Star Wars
Telemann - La Grace
Telemann - L’Esperance
Wagner - Bridal Chorus
Catholic Mass of Creation
Holiday Songs and Carols

OBRIEN STRINGS PLUS VOCALS
(Kate can arrange the music to accompany a vocalist singing your special song.)

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All I Ask of You (Phantom)
Alleluia (Mozart)
Arise and Come
Ave Maria (Bach-Gounod, Schubert)
Celtic Alleluia
Con Te Partiro (Time to Say Goodbye)
Covenant Hymn
Dodi Li (Jewish Procession)
How Beautiful (Paris)
I Hope You Dance
If Ever I would Leave You
Irish Wedding Song
Love Changes Everything (Aspects of Love)
Mass of Creation (Catholic Mass)
Notre Dame, Our Mother
One Hand, One Heart (Bernstein)
Over the Rainbow (Wizard of Oz)
Panis Angelicus (Franck)
Pie Jesu (Webber)
The Prayer (Sager, Foster)
Through the Eyes of Love (Ice Castles)
Unity Candle Song
Walk With Them Lord
The Way You Look Tonight
The Wedding Song (Stookey)

VIOLIN/GUITAR DUO
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WEDDING CEREMONIES
Wagner - Bridal March
Mendelssohn - Wedding March
Pachelbel - Canon in D
Clarke - Trumpet Voluntary
Bach - Air on the G string
Bach - Arioso
Bach - Ave Maria
Bach - Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring
Beethoven - Ode to Joy
Bernstein - One Hand, One Heart
Brahms - St. Anthony Chorale
Celtic Alleluia
Franck - Panis Angelicus
Handel - Royal Fireworks
Handel - Water Music
Mass of Creation
Mouret - Rondeau, Premiere Suite
Mozart - Ave verum corpus
The Prayer
Purcell - Trumpet Tune
Schubert - Ave Maria
Simon Tov, Mazel Tov
  - breaking of the glass
Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet
Vivaldi - Four Seasons
Wedding Song

POPULAR, BROADWAY, ETHNIC
(also for Strolling)
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POPULAR (the last 100 years!)
Too many to list! - we take requests.
Includes:
All I Ask of You (Phantom)
At Last
Can’t Stop (RHCP)
Cat Stevens
Cold Play
Cole Porter
Cyndi Lauper
Daughters (John Mayer)
Dave Matthews
Don’t Stop Believin’
Frank Sinatra
George and Ira Gershwin
I’m Yours (J. Mraz)
My Heart Will Go On (Titanic)
Nat King Cole
Nora Jones
Oh Girl (Chi-lites)
Rainbow Connection (Muppets)
Unchained Melody (Ghost)
Unforgettable
Walk Don’t Run
What a Wonderful World
Romantic songs - all occasions
Music from many shows and movies, including:
Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Les Miserables, West Side Story

CLASSIC ROCK and BALLADS
Aerosmith
Allman Brothers
Average White Band
Beach Boys
Beatles
Ben Folds
Bonnie Raitt
Chicago
Cold Play
Cyndi Lauper
David Bowie
Delphonics
Elvis
Eric Clapton
Jackson 5
James Taylor
Jefferson Airplane
Jimi Hendrix
Billy Joel
Journey
KC and JoJo
Led Zeppelin
Neil Young
Nirvana
Paul Simon
Peter Frampton
The Police
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rolling Stones
Stevie Wonder
Sting
Traffic
Verve
Van Morrison

JAZZ and SWING tunes

BLUEGRASS, COUNTRY & WESTERN
Orange Blossom Special
Many Fiddle tunes
Western Swing (Bob Wills)

LATIN
RAGTIME
GYPSY MUSIC
GREEK
POLISH
FRENCH
WALTZES
SWING and JAZZ STANDARDS

HOLIDAY MUSIC and SONGS

Please ask for what you want to hear!