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Motor City Strings

Motor City Strings is one of Metro Detroit’s most recognizable and acclaimed string quartets (also performs as a trio). Individually or collectively, MCS members appear with the Michigan Opera Theater orchestra as well as the symphony orchestras of Dearborn, Birmingham/Bloomfield, Livonia, Warren, Windsor and more. Offering amazing performances from an extensive playlist, Motor City Strings is highly in demand but may be available for your wedding ceremony, reception or private event.

Listen to the Motor City Strings:

	Wedding March
	Water Music Air
	One Hand, One Heart
	Rondeau
	A Little Spring Music

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Wedding Selections

• Pachelbel CANON in D
• Wagner BRIDAL CHORUS
   ('Here Comes the Bride')
• Mendelssohn WEDDING MARCH
• Handel WATER MUSIC AIR
• Bernstein 'ONE HAND, ONE HEART'
• Clarke TRUMPET VOLUNTARY IN D
• Handel WATER MUSIC FINALE
• Mouret RONDEAU
• Vivaldi 'A LITTLE SPRING MUSIC'
• Anonymous 'There Is Love'
• Bach Air from Suite #3
   Arioso from Cantata No. 156
   Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
   Prelude from 'Liebster Jesu' chorale
   Prelude from 'Wachet Auf' chorale

• Bach/Gounod 'Ave Maria'
• Beethoven 'Ode to Joy'
• Bock 'Sabbath Prayer'
   'Sunrise, Sunset'
• Franck 'Panis Angelicus'
• Handel 'La Rejouissance'
   Minuet from 'Water Music'
• Malotte 'The Lordís Prayer'
• Massenet Meditation from Thais
• Naughtin (arr.) The Wedding Suite
• Puccini Aria Medley
• Purcell Trumpet Tune
• Rodgers Wedding Processional from
   Sound of Music
• Schubert 'Ave Maria'
• Traditional 'Amazing Grace'

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Pop Selections

• Bernstein 'ONE HAND, ONE HEART'
• Lennon/McCartney 'IN MY LIFE'
• Irish air 'LONDONDERRY AIR'
• Jarre 'LARA'S SONG' (Dr. Zhivago)
• Webber 'ALL I ASK OF YOU'
• Jenkins 'PALLADIO' (Diamond music)
• Strauss, Johann 'EMPEROR WALTZ'
• Joplin 'COUNTRY CLUB RAG'
• Anderson 'BLUE TANGO'
• Anderson 'Jazz Pizzicato'
• 'Syncopated Clock'
• Arlen 'Stormy Weather'
• Barry 'Somewhere in Time'
• Caesar/Youmans 'Tea for Two'
• Foster Love Scene from 'St. Elmo's Fire'
• Garner 'Misty'
• Gershwin 'Embraceable You'
• 'Someone to Watch Over Me'
• Gilbert & Sullivan 'When I Was a Lad'
• Williams 'Red Sails in the Sunset'

• Hamlisch 'The Way We Were'
• Harburg 'Over the Rainbow'
• Haupfeld 'As Time Goes By'
• Kern 'The Way You Look Tonight'
• Legrand 'Summer of '42' theme
• Lennon/McCartney 'Yesterday'
• Moore (arr.) 'Motown Forever'
• Padilla 'El Relicario'
• Porter 'Begin the Beguine'
• 'I Love Paris'
• 'Night & Day'
• Reed (arr.) 'Scarborough Fair/Canticle'
• Sondheim 'Send in the Clowns'
• Scottish Air 'Loch Lomond'
• Strauss, Johann 'Blue Danube'
• 'Tales From the Vienna Woods'
• Streisand 'Evergreen'
• Webber 'Memoryî (from Cats)
• 'Music of the Night'

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Light Classics

• Joplin “COUNTRY CLUB RAG”
• Puccini “O MIO BABBINO CARO”
   LA BOHÈME selection
• Strauss, Johann “EMPEROR WALTZ”
• Beethoven Adagio Cantabile
• Bizet Flower Song from Carmen
   Entr’acte to Act IV of Carmen
• Brahms Hungarian Dance #5
• Chopin Grande Valse Brillante
   (Eb major, Op. 18) —
   Minute Waltz (Db major, Op. 64, #1)
   Waltz (C# minor, Op. 64, #2)
• Debussy “Clair de Lune”
• “Golliwog’s Cake-walk”
• Delibes Valse Lente (from Coppelia)
• Gounod Waltz (from Faust)
• Joplin “Bethena,” a concert waltz
   “Easy Winners,” a ragtime 2-step
   “Elite Syncopations”
   “The Entertainer”
   “Maple Leaf Rag”
   “Ragtime Dance,” a stop-time 2-step
   “Strenuous Life”

• Kreisler “Liebesfreud”
• Lehar “Vilia” from The Merry Widow
   “(arr. Naughtin)
• Mascagni Intermezzo
• Massenet Meditation from Thais
• Ravel Menuet from Le Tombeau de Couperin
• Roberts “Junk Man Rag”
   “Music Box Rag”
• Strauss, Johann “Artist’s Life”
   “Beautiful Blue Danube”
   “Tales From the Vienna Woods”
   “Vienna Life”
   “You and You”
Tchaikovsky Waltz from Serenade for Strings
• Waldteufel “Estudiantina” from
   “Suite de Valses
   “Skaters’ Waltz”

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Classical

• Handel FINALE FROM WATER MUSIC
   AIR FROM WATER MUSIC
• Vivaldi “ALLA RUSTICA”
   “A LITTLE SPRING MUSIC”
• Clarke TRUMPET VOLUNTARY
• Mouret RONDEAU
• Bach Brandenburg Concerto
   #3, 2 movements —
   Brandenburg Concerto #2, 1 movement
   “Loure” from 3rd Suite for Cello
   Two Gavottes from D major suite
• Boccherini Quintet arrangement
• Corelli Corrente
   Menuetto (arr. Irma Clarke)

• Handel “Entrance of the Queen of Sheba”
   Gigue (arr. Clarke)
   “La Rejouissance”
• Mozart Andante from Quartet K. 170
   Andante grazioso, D major
   Allegro, Quartet in C major, K. 157 (#13)
   Presto, Quartet in C major
   “Alleluia” from Exultate, Jubilate
   “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik”
• Purcell Largo from “Golden Sonata”
   (arr. Clarke)
• Rameau Gavotte (arr. Clarke)

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