Popular Music Repertoire
ABBA
"Mamma Mia"
"I Have A Dream"
"Dancing Queen"
Abreu
“Tico-Tico” Samba
Ace of Base
“It’s a Beautiful Life”
Adele
“Rolling in the Deep”
“Set Fire to the Rain”
“Skyfall”
Sade Adu and Stuart
Matthewman
“Your Love is King”
Albeniz
“Tango in D”
Mike Altman and Johnny
Mandel
“Suicide is Painless” from M*A*S*H
Anderson
“Blue Tango”
Priscilla Ann
“Dream”
Harold Arlen
“It’s Only a Paper Moon”
“Somewhere Over the Rainbow”
Craig Armstrong
“Portuguese Love Theme” (from “Love Actually”)
Asher and Wilson
“God Only Knows”
Babyface, Real &
Simmons
“End of the Road”
Klaus Badelt
“He’s a Pirate” from Pirates of the Caribbean
Bandolim
“Noites Cariocas”
Gnarls Barkley
“Crazy”
John Barry
“I Had a Farm In Africa” from Out of Africa
Barry & Gibb
“Woman in Love”
Notes an original CBSQ arrangement
Cherry Blossom String Quartet
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The Beatles
“All You Need Is Love”
“And I Love Her”
“Eleanor Rigby”
“Here Comes the Sun”
“Here, There, and Everywhere”
“I Saw Her Standing There”
“I’ll Follow the Sun”
“If I Fell”
“In My Life”
“Michelle”
“No Reply”
“She’s Leaving Home”
“When I’m 64”
“Yesterday”
The Bee Gees
“How Deep Is Your Love”
“Too Much Heaven”
Irving Berlin
“Alexander’s Ragtime Band”
Leonard Bernstein
“One Hand, One Heart” from West Side Story
Beyonce
“Halo”
Black Eyed Peas
“I Gotta Feeling”
Jerry Block
“Sunrise, Sunset” from Fiddler on the Roof
Leslie Bricusse and
Anthony Newley
“Pure Imagination” from Willy Wonka and the
Chocolate Factory
Bunessan
“Morning Has Broken”
Michael Bublé
“Everything”
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
Eric Clapton
“Wonderful Tonight”
Ed Cobb
“Tainted Love”
Notes an original CBSQ arrangement
Cherry Blossom String Quartet
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Arthur Cohen
“Hallelujah”
Cold Play
“Clocks”
“In My Place”
“Trouble”
“Yellow”
“Viva La Vida”
Natalie Cole
“This Will Be”
Bill Conti
“North and South”
Crewe and Goudio
“Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You”
Daft Punk
“One More Time”
David and Bacharach
“Wishin’ and Hopin’”
Mack David, Al Hoffman
and Jerry Livingston
“So This is Love (The Cinderella Waltz)
Davis
“You Are My Sunshine”
Dees and Orbison
“Oh, Pretty Woman”
John Denver
“Sunshine On My Shoulders”
Paul Desmond
“Take Five”
Des’ree
“Kissing You”
Deville & Masson
“Story Book Love”
DeVotchKa
“The Winner Is” from Little Miss Sunshine
Celine Dion
“My Heart Will Go On” from Titanic
“To Love You More”
Sherman Edwards
“Wonderful! Wonderful!”
Enya
“Silver Inches”
“Only Time”
Fekaris and Perren
“I Will Survive”
Ben Folds
“The Luckiest”
“Before Cologne”
Notes an original CBSQ arrangement
Cherry Blossom String Quartet
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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
Fun
“We Are Young”
Gade
“Jalousie” Tango
Gardel
“Por Una Cabeza” Tango
Joe Garland
“In the Mood”
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
Jerry Goldsmith
“Carol Anne’s Theme” from Poltergeist
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”
Guns ’N’ Roses
“Sweet Child O’ Mine”
Bob Haggart
“What’s New”
Oscar Hammerstein
“All the Things You Are”
Marvin Hamlisch
“The Way We Were”
Glen Hansard
“Falling Slowly” from Once
Lorenz Hart
“Blue Moon”
Roy Henderson
“Bye Bye Blackbird”
Notes an original CBSQ arrangement
Cherry Blossom String Quartet
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James Horner
“The Ludlows” from Legends of the Fall
Herman Hupfeld
“As Time Goes By”
Incubus
“I Miss You”
Jose Irizarry
“Promise”
Iron and Wine
“Flightless Bird, American Mouth”
Bon Iver
“Holocene”
“Skinny Love”
Michael Jackson
“Human Nature”
“Smooth Criminal”
“The Way You Make Me Feel”
“Thriller”
Carly Rae Jepsen
“Call Me Maybe”
Billy Joel
“Careless Talk”
“Just The Way You Are”
“The Longest Time”
“ Always a Woman”
Elton John and Bernie
Taupin
“Your Song”
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 Strenuous Life”
“Weeping Willow”
Notes an original CBSQ arrangement
Cherry Blossom String Quartet
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Journey
“Don’t Stop Believin”
R. Kelly
“I Don’t Want To”
Kenny G
“The Wedding Song”
Kina and Ishikawa
“Hana (Flower)”
Ben E King, Liber and
Stoller
“Stand By Me”
Koji Kondo
Theme from “The Legend of Zelda”
Kuski and Roto
“Speak, Softly Love” theme from The Godfather
Lady Antebellum
“Need You Now”
Lady Gaga
“Bad Romance”
“Poker Face”
Francis Lai
“Love Story”
Lawrence and Coates
“Sleepy Lagoon”
Lawrence and Gross
“Tenderly”
Led Zeppelin
“Kashmir”
Lerner and Loewe
“I Could Have Danced All Night”
Morgan Lewis
“How High the Moon”
John Lennon
“Grow Old With Me”
Lennox and Stewart
“Sweet Dreams Are Made of This”
Louiguy
“La Vie En Rose”
Lynyrd Skynrd
“Sweet Home Alabama”
Bruno Mars
“Marry You”
“When I Was Your Man”
Maroon Five
Metallica
Paul McCartney
T. McCauley and M.
D’Abo
“Moves Like Jagger”
“One”
“Maybe I’m Amazed”
“Build Me Up, Buttercup”
Notes an original CBSQ arrangement
Cherry Blossom String Quartet
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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 Mercer
“Le Feuilles Mortes” (The Autumn Leaves)
Freddie Mercury
“Bohemian Rhapsody”
“Crazy Little Thing Called Love”
“We are the Champions”
George Michael
“Careless Whisper”
Bette Midler
“From a Distance”
“Wind Beneath My Wings”
Miller
“Moonlight Serenade”
Claude Morgan
“El Bimbo”
Morricone
“Gabriel’s Oboe” from The Mission
Van Morrison
“Into the Mystic”
Jason Mraz
“I’m Yours”
Nakamura and Ei
“Sukiyaki”
Nat King Cole
“Mona Lisa”
Alex North
“Unchained Melody” from Ghost
Curtis O’Neal
“Turning Page” from Breaking Dawn (Twilight)
Roy Orbison
“Crying”
Notes an original CBSQ arrangement
Cherry Blossom String Quartet
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Twila Paris
“How Beautiful”
Paul Overstreet and Don
Schlitz
“When You Say Nothing At All”
Christina Perri
“A Thousand Years” from Twilight
Katy Perry
“Firework”
Piazzolla
“Tanguedia III”
The Platters
“Smoke Gets In Your Eyes”
“Where”
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”
“(You’re the) Devil in Disguise”
C.E. Quick
“Come Go With Me”
Radiohead
“Nice Dream”
Rascal Flatts
“Bless the Broken Road”
R.E.M.
“Night Swimming”
Rock and Martin
“Since I Don’t Have You”
Smokey Robinson and
Ronald White
“My Girl”
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
Notes an original CBSQ arrangement
Cherry Blossom String Quartet
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“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
Russell and Barroso
“Brazil”
Sager and Foster
“The Prayer”
Sartori
“Time to Say Goodbye”
Schmidt
“Try to Remember” from The Fantastiks
Aaron Schroeder and
Wally Gold
“O’ Sole Mio!” (It’s Now or Never)
Edward Sharpe and the
Magnetic Zeros
“Home”
Howard Shore
“Concerning Hobbits” from The Lord of the Rings
Sigman and Maxwell
“Ebb Tide”
Sigur Ross
“Hoppipola”
Alan Silvestri
“Forrest Gump Theme (Feather Theme)”
Nina Simone
“Feeling Good”
Singleton, Snyder &
Kaempfert
“Strangers in the Night” from A Man Could Get
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
(Japanese animations
Selections from “Spirited Away”
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written and directed by
Hayao Miyazaki)
Selections from “Princess Mononoke”
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”
Theme from “Doraemon”
Taylor Swift
“Love Story”
Tanimura
“Subaru”
Traditional arranged by
James Taylor & Don
Grolnick
“The Water is Wide”
Joey Tempest
“Final Countdown”
Tiffany
“I Think We’re Alone Now”
Justin Timberlake
“Lovestoned”
Traditional Irish
Folksong
“Minstrel Boy”
Traditional
“La Bamba”
Twain & Lange
“From This Moment On”
U2
“All I Want is You”
“With or Without You”
Udell and Geld
“Sealed With a Kiss”
Pat Upton
“More Today than Yesterday”
Ungar
“Ashokan Farewell” from Ken Burns’ Civil War
Mini-series
Vangelis
“Chariots of Fire”
Various
"Stop! In the Name Of Love"
"I Heard It Through The Grapevine"
"I'll Be There"
Notes an original CBSQ arrangement
Cherry Blossom String Quartet
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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
Peretti and
Luigi Creatore
“Can’t Help Falling In Love”
Weiss and Thiele
“What a Wonderful World”
Kanye West
“Flashing Lights”
Barry White
“You’re the First, the Last, My Everything”
The Who
“Baba O’Reilly (Teenage Wasteland)”
Stevie Wonder
“Isn’t She Lovely?”
“Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours”
John Williams
“Can You Read My Mind” from Superman
“ET Theme” from ET
“Hook Theme” from Hook
“Jaws Theme” from Jaws
“Jurassic Park Theme” from Jurassic Park
“The People’s House” from Lincoln
“The Long Road to Justice” from Amistad
“Raiders March” from Indiana Jones and the
Raiders of the Lost Arc
“Schindler’s List Theme” from Schindler’s List
“Star Wars Theme” from Star Wars
Allee Willis
“The Color Purple Finale” from The Color Purple
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
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