Skip to main content

more options


Recent Concert Playlists

Playing the chimes

Did you enjoy a recent concert, but didn't recognize all of the songs? Click on the links below to view playlists from the past week.

As a nod to tradition, the chimesmasters play the Cornell Changes, affectionately known as the Jennie McGraw Rag to begin each day. This piece was originally requested by the first Cornell President Andrew D. White. The midday concert concludes with the Alma Mater, and the day ends with the Cornell Evening Song (which shares its tune with the German carol Tannenbaum). These songs are not listed below because their placement is the same within each concert. Composers are listed when known.

If you do not see the song/concert that you are looking for, please email chimes@cornell.edu.

Friday - November 6th, 2009

Evening

  • Lament -- The Bellman's Suite / Lee, Richard H. (RHL '41)
  • Let's Go Fly a Kite -- Mary Poppins / Sherman, R. and R. Sherman
  • The Moldau ("Vlatava", in Czech) / Smetana
  • German Dance / Mozart, W.A.
  • Shepherd's Hey
  • Dueling Chimesmasters
  • Babylon
  • God Rest You Merry Gentlemen
  • Chaconne / Durand, Auguste
  • Too Much I Once Lamented / Dalaker, Joe
  • Marche Militaire / Schubert, Franz
  • Canzona Per Sonare No. 2: Seconda / Gabrieli, G.
  • Water Music -- Suite I, F Major / Handel, G.F.
  • Mikado Madrigal - Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day (version 2) / Sullivan, Sir Arthur
  • Under the Big Top / Fucik, J.
  • Tubular Bells
  • Etude for two bellmen / Lee, Richard H. (RHL '41)
  • Charette à Velor / Jenkins, Keith (KGJ '93)
  • The Old Music Box
  • Sabre Dance from Gayne Ballet / Khachaturian
  • If I Can't Love Her: from "Beauty and the Beast" / Menken, Alan
  • Asa's Death / Grieg, Edvard
  • Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy / Stapp
  • Ring, Christmas Bells (Carol of the Bells) / Leontovich, M.
  • Wouldn't it Be Loverly -- My Fair Lady / Lerner and Loewe
  • Fugue / Bach, Johann Sebastian
  • Barcarolle -- Tales of Hoffman / Offenbach, J.
  • Air and variations for carillon / Handel, G.F.
  • Memory from "Cats" / Webber, Andrew Lloyd
  • Allemande from Suite #16 in G Minor / Handel, G.F.
  • Bingo Marshmallow / Tesler, Burt
  • Arrival in New Haven / Jenkins, Keith (KGJ '93)
  • Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Menuetto and Trio (III) / Mozart, W.A.
  • Gavotte, K. 10 / Mozart, W.A.
  • Cornell Changes (Jennie McGraw Rag)
  • Cornell Evening Song
  • Cornell Evening Song with descant

Afternoon

  • Peanuts Theme (from "Charlie Brown") / Guaraldi, Vince
  • Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (Variations on) / Lee, Richard H. (RHL '41)
  • Frere Jacques
  • When You Wish Upon a Star (Pinocchio) / Harline
  • Colors of the wind (from "Pocahontas") / Menken, Alan
  • A Whole New World / Menken, Alan

Morning

  • Canon / Pachelbel, Johann
  • In the Garden / Miles, C. Austin
  • Hyfrydol (Praise the Lord, ye heavens, adore Him) / Prichard, Rowland Hugh
  • Saint Dunstan's (He who would valiant be) / Douglas, W.
  • O Perfect Love -- Sandringham (Dear God, our Father, at thy knee) (When winds are raging) / Barnby, J.
  • Fairest Lord Jesus

Thursday - November 5th, 2009

Evening

  • Evening Hymn / Dalaker, Joe
  • Westminster Waltz/Big Ben Bagatelle / Ubogy, George '58
  • Moonlight Sonata - Adagio, Op. 27, No. 2 / Beethoven, Ludwig von
  • Driving Rain / Jenkins, Keith (KGJ '93)

Afternoon

  • We Hail Thee, Holy Goddess
  • Stop! In the Name of Love
  • A La Francaise / Bolling, Claude
  • Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (Variations on) / Lee, Richard H. (RHL '41)
  • Bellman's Fiesta / Lee, Richard H. (RHL '41)
  • Cornell Alma Mater, Variations 1 and 2
  • Cornell Alma Mater -- Duet / Krasicky, Phil and R. J. M.

Morning

  • I Want to Hold Your Hand / Beatles, The
  • Wouldn't it Be Loverly -- My Fair Lady / Lerner and Loewe
  • Toccata in F Major / Bach, Johann Sebastian
  • Do you hear the people sing (part of "Les Miserables" medley) / Schönberg, Claude-Michel

Wednesday - November 4th, 2009

Evening

  • Happiness (You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown) / Gesner, Clark
  • Ode to Joy -- Symphony #9 / Beethoven, Ludwig von
  • Leaving on jet plane / Denver, John
  • Greensleeves
  • The Swan

Afternoon

  • Prelude in a Classical Style
  • Tetris Medley
  • Whole Tone Fantasy -- The Bellman's Suite / Lee, Richard H. (RHL '41)
  • Cornell Alma Mater, Variations 1 and 2
  • Cornell Alma Mater -- Duet / Krasicky, Phil and R. J. M.

Morning

  • Weary of Earth (Langran) / Langran, James
  • Advent: Comfort, Comfort Ye, My People (Freu Dich Sehr, O Meine Seele) (Psalm 42) / Psalter, Genevan
  • Old Rugged Cross, The (On a hill far away) / Bennard, George
  • How Beautiful Are the Feet of Them -- Messiah / Handel, G.F.
  • Ballad

Tuesday - November 3rd, 2009

Evening

  • Estudio no. 6 / Sor, Fernando
  • When Jesus Wept: Fuguing tune / Billings, William
  • Spring Stream
  • Hedwing's Theme (from "Harry Potter") / Williams, John
  • from Fifth Violin Sonata / Bach, Johann Sebastian

Afternoon

  • The River is Wide
  • In Bohemia's Halls / Schubert, Franz
  • I Love My Love (Abroad as I was Walking) / Holst, Gustav
  • Loch Lomond
  • Londonderry Air
  • Thanks to the Morning Light

Morning

  • California, Here I Come / Meyer
  • Aragonaise from "Carmen" / Bizet
  • Allemande from First Cello Suite / Bach, Johann Sebastian
  • Prince of Denmark March (The Famous Trumpet Voluntary) / Clarke, Jeremiah

Monday - November 2nd, 2009

Evening

  • Stairway to Heaven / Led Zeppelin
  • Apologize
  • Promenade (from "Pictures at an exhibition") / Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
  • Cornell Evening Song with descant

Afternoon

  • Au Clair de la Lune
  • Clocks / Coldplay
  • In the Hall of the Mountain King / Grieg, Edvard
  • Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (Variations on) / Lee, Richard H. (RHL '41)
  • Agitato Expressivo -- The Bellman's Suite / Lee, Richard H. (RHL '41)

Morning

  • Geibel (Stand up, stand up for Jesus) / Geibel, Adam
  • Meditation (Good Friday) (There is a green hill far away) (O God, unseen yet ever near) / Gower, John H.
  • And Can It Be That I Should Gain (Sagina) / Campbell, Thomas
  • Come Thou fount of every blessing (Nettleton)
  • Theme with Variations -- Louvan (Lord of all being, throned afar) / Taylor, Virgil C.
  • Old 124th (Turn Back, O Man) (Praise Ye the Lord, Ye Servants) / Psalter, Genevan

Sunday - November 1st, 2009

Evening

  • Menuets I and II from First Cello Suite / Bach, Johann Sebastian
  • Serenade #10 for Winds, 4th Movement, K. 361 / Mozart, W.A.
  • I Don't Know How to Love Him -- Jesus Christ Superstar / Webber, Andrew Lloyd
  • Why God, Why -- from "Miss Saigon" / Schönberg, Claude-Michel

Afternoon

  • The Addams Family
  • Leaving on jet plane / Denver, John
  • When I'm Sixty-Four (64) / Beatles, The
  • Kokomo / Beach Boys
  • Gavotte from Partita No. 3 for violin solo / Bach, Johann Sebastian

Morning

  • Gift to be Simple
  • Zippety Doodah / Wrubel, Allie
  • Morning / Riegger '10
  • Close to You / Cagnet
  • Happy Birthday
  • The Music of the Night: The Phantom of the Opera / Webber, Andrew Lloyd

Saturday - October 31st, 2009

Evening

  • Pink Elephants on Parade -- Dumbo / Wallace, Oliver
  • Hedwing's Theme (from "Harry Potter") / Williams, John
  • Scene from Swan Lake / Tschaikovsky, P. I.
  • Danse Macabre / Saint-Saëns
  • Sorcerer's Apprentice / Dukas, P.
  • Chim Chim Cher-ee --Mary Poppins / Sherman, R. and R. Sherman
  • Gnossienne No. 1 / Satie, Erik
  • Sabre Dance from Gayne Ballet / Khachaturian
  • Lament -- The Bellman's Suite / Lee, Richard H. (RHL '41)
  • Little G Minor Fugue, BWV 578 / Bach, Johann Sebastian
  • Balancing Rocks / Jenkins, Keith (KGJ '93)
  • Etude / Lee, Richard H. (RHL '41)
  • The Well-Tempered Clavier / Bach, Johann Sebastian
  • First Loss -- Album for the Young / Schumann, R.
  • Wild Horseman -- Album for the Young / Schumann, R.
  • Asa's Death / Grieg, Edvard
  • Estudio #5 / Sor, Fernando
  • Raiders March in D / Williams, John
  • Windmills of Your Mind / LeGrand, Michel
  • Godfather - Theme from
  • Witches' Revels / Schytte, Ludvig
  • Toccata and Fugue in D Minor / Bach, Johann Sebastian
  • Summer Overture - Requiem for a Dream
  • Chervona Ruta (Red Rue) / Ivasiuk, Volodymyr
  • Arrival in New Haven / Jenkins, Keith (KGJ '93)
  • Symphony No. 5 - 2nd mvmt
  • Dueling Chimesmasters
  • Snow / Jenkins, Keith (KGJ '93)
  • Marche Slave / Tschaikovsky
  • Thriller
  • The Honest Charlatan / Jenkins, Keith (KGJ '93)
  • Alma Mater in a Minor Key / Drabkin '69

Afternoon

  • Prelude from First Cello Suite / Bach, Johann Sebastian
  • Liebesleid
  • What a wonderful world
  • Unchained Melody / North, Alex and Hy Zaret

Morning

  • Stormy Weather / Arlen, H.
  • Sorcerer's Apprentice / Dukas, P.
  • Marche Slave / Tschaikovsky
  • Danse Macabre / Saint-Saëns
  • Alma Mater in a Minor Key / Drabkin '69

The Cornell Chimes Logo

Contact Information

The Cornell Chimes
B07 Day Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853-2801
607-255-5350

Please address any comments or questions to chimes@cornell.edu.