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Midsummer Night’s Dream Wedding March by Mendelssohn is one of many musical numbers that Palm Strings has learnt in order to provide the ideal live music at the various weddings, birthday parties, functions and even funerals at which it plays.
Customers frequently place requests with us which we learn free of charge in order to provide the right music for their occasion.
At weddings in many Western countries, this piece is commonly used as a recessional and it is frequently teamed with the “Bridal Chorus” from Richard Wagner’s opera Lohengrin.
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Ode to Joy by Beethoven is one of many musical numbers that Palm Strings has learnt in order to provide the ideal live music at the various weddings, birthday parties, functions and even funerals at which it plays.
Customers frequently place requests with us which we learn free of charge in order to provide the right music for their occasion.
Over the years, Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” has been used as a protest anthem and a celebration of music. It is often used as a recessional at weddings.
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Here Comes The Bride by Richard Wagner is one of many musical numbers that Palm Strings has learnt in order to provide the ideal live music at the various weddings, birthday parties, functions and even funerals at which it plays. Customers frequently place requests with us which we learn free of charge in order to provide the right music for their occasion.
This is one of the many ways in which Palm Strings has distinguished itself at the most versatile professional live music band/group in Cape Town.
The “Bridal Chorus” from the 1850 opera Lohengrin by German composer Richard Wagner is a march played for the bride’s entrance at many formal weddings throughout the Western world – generally known as “Here Comes the Bride” or “Wedding March”
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The Flower Duet from Lakmé by Gounod is one of many musical numbers that Palm Strings has learnt in order to provide the ideal live music at the various weddings, birthday parties, functions and even funerals at which it plays.
Customers frequently place requests with us which we learn free of charge in order to provide the right music for their occasion.
The “Flower Duet” is a famous duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano from Léo Delibes’ opera Lakmé, first performed in Paris in 1883
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George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel, was a German baroque composer who spent most of his life in London. He is well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos. He was strongly influenced both by the great composers of the Italian Baroque and the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition.
The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba by Handel is one of many musical numbers that Palm Strings has learnt in order to provide the ideal live music at the various weddings, birthday parties, functions and even funerals at which it plays. Customers frequently place requests with us which we learn free of charge in order to provide the right music for their occasion.
This is one of the many ways in which Palm Strings has distinguished itself at the most versatile professional live music band/group in Cape Town.
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The piece consists of a melody by the French Romantic composer Charles Gounod especially designed to be superimposed over the Prelude No. 1 in C major, BWV 846, from Book I of J.S. Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier, written 137 years earlier.
Ave Maria by Gounod is one of many musical numbers that Palm Strings has learnt in order to provide the ideal live music at the various weddings, birthday parties, functions and even funerals at which it plays. Customers frequently place requests with us which we learn free of charge in order to provide the right music for their occasion.
Listen to Ave Maria on YouTube.
Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. He composed more than six hundred vocal works, seven symphonies, fsacred music, operas, incidental music as well as chamber and piano music. Today, Schubert is considered one of the greatest composers of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.
Ave Maria by Schubert is one of many musical numbers that Palm Strings has learnt in order to provide the ideal live music at the various weddings, birthday parties, functions and even funerals at which it plays. Customers frequently place requests with us which we learn free of charge in order to provide the right music for their occasion.
Listen to Schubert’s Ave Maria on YouTube
Pachelbel’s Canon, like his other works, although popular during his lifetime, went out of style, and remained in obscurity for centuries. Since the 1980s, however, it has also been used often in weddings and funeral ceremonies in the Western world.
Canon in D by Pachelbel is one of many musical numbers that Palm Strings has learnt in order to provide the ideal live music at the various weddings, birthday parties, functions and even funerals at which it plays. Customers frequently place requests with us which we learn free of charge in order to provide the right music for their occasion.
Listen to a version of this piece on YouTube.
Klezmer is a musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe. The genre originally consisted largely of dance tunes and instrumental display pieces for weddings and other celebrations.
Congrats to the Bride and Groom is one of many musical numbers that Palm Strings has learnt in order to provide the ideal live music at the various weddings, birthday parties, functions and even funerals at which it plays. Customers frequently place requests with us which we learn free of charge in order to provide the right music for their occasion.
Listen to an example on YouTube.
