Strings

Betsy Loughran and the Seviay Strings

Cellist Elizabeth Loughran of Newtown received her bachelor’s degree in performance from Gettysburg College and holds a master’s degree in cello performance from the College of Music at Temple University. She has studied with Laszlo Varga at the Aspen Music Festival. She has also studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana and the Gubbio Festival in Italy. She has coached with Robert Cafaro of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Ms. Loughran’s posts have included principal cellist with the Riverside Symphonia, Trenton Symphony, Newtown Chamber Orchestra, and Boheme Opera, and she is a member of the Princeton Symphony and Princeton Pro Musica. She also performs with various chamber ensembles and freelances in the Philadelphia area, including her own Seviay String Quartet, Fairmount Strings, Rittenhouse Strings, and NFL Films. She has coached string chamber music at the New Jersey Governor’s School of the Arts and has taught at area private schools, as well as her private studio.

Audio

Song List

Testemonials

Classical Selections

  • Bach – Aria (Air on the G String), Gavotte I and II, Bourrée and Gigue from Orchestral Suite #3 in D Major
  • Bach – Arioso from Cantata #156
  • Bach – Bist du Bei Mir (Be Thou with Me)
  • Bach – Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring from Cantata # 147
  • Bach – My Heart Ever Faithful
  • Bach – Sheep May Safely Graze from Cantata #208
  • Bach – Double Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor

  • Bach – Brandenburg Concertos #3, #4, #5 and #6
  • Bach – Wachet Auf (Sleepers Awake)
  • Bach/Gounod – Ave Maria
  • Barnby – O Perfect Love
  • The Beatles – All You Need is Love
  • Beethoven – Ode to Joy from Symphony #9
  • Betteridge – The Irish Wedding Song
  • Brahms – Finale from Symphony #1

  • Campra – Rigaudon
  • Charpentier – Te Deum
  • Clarke (Purcell) – Trumpet Voluntary
  • Corelli – Pastorale from Christmas Concerto
  • Elgar – Nimrod from Enigma Variations
  • Faure – Pavane
  • Franck – Panis Angelicus (O Lord Most Holy)
  • Gluck – Dance of the Blessed Spirits – Orpheus and Eurydice

  • Grieg – Ich Liebe Dich (I Love You)
  • Handel – Hornpipe, Air, Minuet and Finale from the Water Music Suite
  • Handel – Aria from Concerto Grosso in E Major, op. 6, #12
  • Handel – Bourrée, Menuet and La Rejouissance (The Rejoicing) from the Royal Fireworks Music
  • Handel – Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from Solomon
  • Handel – Largo from Xerxes
  • Handel – Where E’er You Walk from Semele
  • Handel – Excerpts from The Messiah

  • Haas – Where There is Love
  • Haydn – String Quartets
  • Holst – Jupiter from The Planets
  • Humperdinck – Evening Prayer from Hansel and Gretel
  • MacDowell – To a Wild Rose
  • Malotte – The Lord’s Prayer
  • Massenet – Meditation from Thais
  • Mendelssohn – Traditional Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • Mendelssohn – Lift Thine Eyes from Elijah
  • Mouret – Rondeau from Symphonie des Fanfares
  • Mozart – Ave Verum Corpus

  • Mozart – Alleluia from Exultate Jubilate
  • Mozart – Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
  • Mozart – Laudate Dominium from Vespers
  • Mozart – String Quartets
  • Mozart – Wedding March from The Marriage of Figaro
  • Pachelbel – Canon in D
  • Purcell – Trumpet Voluntary
  • Ravel – Pavane
  • Schubert – Ave Maria
  • Shaker Melody – Simple Gifts
  • Vaughn Williams – Rhosymedre (Welsh Tune)
  • Vivaldi – Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter The Four Seasons
  • Wagner – Traditional Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin

Contemporary Selections

All You Need is Love, You Belong with Me, At Last, Just the Way You Are, Love Story, The Halo, Happy, The Prayer, The Luckiest, Just Like Heaven, Portuguese Love Song, Best Day of My Life, A Thousand Years, The Wedding Song, Accidentally in Love, Feel It Still, All of Me, Happy Together, and more…

Christian Hymns
Amazing Grace, Be Thou My Vision (Slane), Dona Nobis Pacem,
Morning Has Broken, Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee, and more…..

Jewish Selections
Simon Tov, Heiveinu Shalom Aleichem, Dodi Li, Erev Shel Shoshanim, Hana Ava Babanot, Hava Nagila, additional Klezmer tunes

Light Classical & Opera Favorites

  • Quartets by Mozart, Haydn, Schubert and Mendelssohn
  • Meditation from “Thais” – Massenet
  • Eine Kleine Nachtmusik – Mozart
  • Pavane – Ravel
  • Morning Prayer – Tchaikovsky
  • Andante Cantabile (String Quartet #1) – Tchaikovsky
  • Brandenburg Concertos #3, 4, 5 – Bach
  • Water Music Suite – Handel
  • Royal Fireworks Music – Handel
  • Celebrated Minuet – Boccherini
  • Serenade – Haydn-Pochon
  • To a Wild Rose – MacDowell
  • Canzonetta – Mendelssohn
  • Rhosymedre – Vaughn Williams
  • Liebesfreud – Kreisler
  • Londonderry Air (Danny Boy) – Traditional
  • Estrellita – Ponce
  • Country Gardens – Traditional

  • Hava Nagila – Traditional
  • Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes – Traditional
  • Nocturne – Borodin
  • Hungarian Dance #5,#6 and #7 – Brahms
  • Minuet 4th English Suite – Bach
  • Moonlight Sonata – Beethoven
  • Two Minuets – Beethoven
  • Two Minuets from Serenade op. 11 – Brahms
  • Prelude in E Minor, op.28, #4 – Chopin
  • Menuet, op. 78 – Schubert
  • Blue Danube Waltz – Strauss
  • Sleeping Beauty Waltz – Tchaikovsky
  • Vienna Woods Waltz – Strauss
  • Frulingstimmen Waltz (Voices of Spring) – Strauss
  • Vivadi – Four Seasons: Spring, Summer, Winter and Autumn
  • Scott Joplin Ragtimes: The Entertainer/ Country Club/Paragon Rag/Maple Leaf Rag/Pineapple Rag/Scoot Joplin’s New Rag/Heliotrope
  • Bouquet/Euphonic Sounds/The Strenuous Life/Antoinette March

MOZART

  • Don Giovanni – Canzonetta, Duettino, Madamina
  • The Marriage of Figaro – Voi,che sapete, Wedding March

PUCCINI

  • La Boheme – O Mimi, tu piu non torni, Quando me’n vo’, Mi chiamano Mimi, Musetta’s Waltz, Finale
  • Madama Butterfly – Lo se-guo il moi destino, One Night of Love, Un bel di
  • Gianni Schicchi – O mio babbino caro
  • Turandot – Nessun Dorma

VERDI

  • La Traviata – Prelude, Act 1, Scene 1, Brindisi, Di Provenza il mar, Ah fors’ e lui che l’anima, Sempre libera degg’io
  • Rigoletto – La donna e mobile, Cara nome, Bella figlia dell’ amore
  • Aida – Act II, Grand finale, Celeste Aida, Numi, pieta
  • Il Trovatore – Anvil Chorus

BIZET

  • Carmen – Aragonaise, Habanera, Les Toreadors

J. SRAUSS, Jr.

  • Die Fledermaus – Adele’s Laughing Song, You and You Waltz

MASCAGNI

  • Cavalleria Rusticana – Intermezzo

GOUNOD

  • Romeo and Juliette – Valse: Ah! Je veux vivre
  • Faust – Waltz and Chorus, The soldier’s chorus, Ballet I, Ballet II

OFFENBACH

  • La Perichole – La letter de Perichole
  • La Vie Parisienne – Rondeau
  • Orpheus in the Underworld – Galop Infernal (Can-Can)
  • Tales of Hoffman – Barcarolle

LEONCAVALLO

  • Pagliacci – Pagliacci

DONIZETTI

  • Lucia di Lamermoor – Aria: Life is Love

BEETHOVEN

  • Fidelio – Finale: Hail to the Day

ROSSINI

  • The Barber of Seville – Largo al factotum

LEHAR

  • The Merry Widow – The Merry Widow Waltz

DELIBES

  • Lakme – Flower Duet

HUMPERDINCK

  • Hansel and Gretel – Evening Prayer

GILBERT and SULLIVAN

  • H.M.S.Pinafore

Popular Music

This is a partial list of the most frequently requested music. If you have a special request, please ask. We may have it in our repertoire or would be happy to search its availability.

  • A Day in the Life of a Fool
  • A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes – Cinderella
  • A Thousand Years from Twilight- Cristina Peri
  • Accidentally in Love – Counting Crows
  • Adagio from A Secret Garden
  • All I Ask of You – Phantom of the Opera
  • All of Me – John Legend
  • All You Need is Love – Beatles
  • Anything Goes – Cole Porter
  • As Time Goes By from Casablanca
  • Ashokan Farewell – Jay Ungar
  • At Last – Etta James
  • Beauty and the Beast – Beauty and the Beast
  • Because You Loved Me – from Up Close and Personal
  • Best Day of My Life – American Authors

  • Bewitched
  • Bittersweet Symphony – The Verve
  • Blue Moon
  • Bridge Over Troubled Water
  • Brown Eyed Girl-Van Morrison
  • Bye-Bye Blackbird
  • Can You Feel the Love Tonight? – The Lion King
  • Can’t Help Falling in Love – Elvis Presley
  • Candle on the Water – Pete’s Dragon
  • El Choclo Vialdo
  • Cinema Paradiso – E. Morricone
  • Clocks – Coldplay
  • Country Club -Scott Joplin
  • Edelweiss from The Sound of Music
  • Eleanor Rigby – Beatles

  • Embraceable You – Gershwin
  • Fascinating Rhythm – Gershwin
  • Feel It Still – Portugul. The Man.
  • Fiddler on the Roof – Tradition, Anatevka, Matchmaker, Sunrise Sunset, To Life!
  • Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen
  • Halo- Beyonce
  • Happy – Pharell Williams
  • Happy Together – The Turtles
  • Havana – Camila Cabello
  • He Loves and She Loves – Gershwin
  • Here Comes the Sun – Beatles
  • How Far I’ll Go – Hamilton
  • How High the Moon
  • I Dreamed a Dream – Les Miserables
  • I Feel Pretty – West Side Story

  • I Get a Kick Out of You – Cole Porter
  • I Got Rhythm – Gershwin
  • I Need You to Survive – from The Gospel
  • It Had to be You
  • It’s Only a Paper Moon
  • I’ve Got a Crush on You
  • I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face – My Fair Lady
  • Just One of those Things – Cole Porter
  • Just The Way You Are- Bruno Mars
  • Lady Be Good – Gershwin
  • La Vie En Rose- Edith Piaf
  • Let It Be – Beatles
  • Libertango – Piazzolla
  • Londonderry Air “ Danny Boy” – Irish Tune
  • Love Story – Katy Perry

  • Lucky – Jason Mraz
  • Maria- West Side Story
  • Maxwell’s Silver Hammer – Beatles
  • Memory – Cats
  • Michelle – Beatles
  • Misty
  • Music of the Night – Phantom of the Opera
  • Night and Day – Cole Porter
  • Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin’ – Oklahoma
  • On My Own – Les Miserables
  • Once Upon A Dream- Cinderella
  • One Hand, One Heart – West Side Story
  • Over the Rainbow – The Wizard of Oz
  • Paragon Rag – Scott Joplin
  • Penny Lane – Beatles

    • People Will Say We’re in Love- Oklahoma
    • Por Una Cabeza – Tango from Scent of A Woman
    • Portuguese Love Song from Love Actually
    • Rhapsody in Blue- Gershwin
    • Since I fell for You
    • Singin’ in the Rain – An American in Paris
    • So This is Love – Cinderella
    • Someday My Prince Will Come – Cinderella
    • Someone to Watch Over Me- Gershwin
    • Something Good from The Sound of Music
    • Somewhere – West Side Story
    • Song from A Secret Garden – The Secret Garden
    • Summertime- Gershwin – Porgy and Bess
    • Sweet and Low Down – Gershwin
    • S’Wonderful – Gershwin<

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      • Tea for Two
      • The Fool on the Hill – Beatles
      • The Impossible Dream – Man of La Mancha
      • The Long and Winding Road – Beatles
      • The Entertainer – Scott Joplin
      • The Long And Winding Road – Beatles
      • The Luckiest – Ben Folds
      • The Man I Love – Gershwin
      • The Prayer- Celine Dion/Andrea Bocelli
      • The Rose
      • Take Five – Dave Brubeck
      • The Way We Were
      • Think of Me – Phantom of the Opera
      • Tonight – West Side Story
      • Unchained Melody

      • Unforgettable
      • Viva La Vida – Coldplay
      • We Found Love – Rhianna
      • What A Wonderful World – Nat King Cole
      • What is This Thing Called Love? – Cole Porter
      • What’s New?
      • When I’m Sixty-Four – Beatles
      • With or Without You – U2
      • Wouldn’t It be Loverly? – My Fair Lady
      • Yellow Submarine – Beatles
      • Yesterday – Beatles
      • You Belong with Me – Taylor Swift
      • You’re the Top – Cole Porter

  • Mozart: The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni and the Marriage of Figaro
  • Puccini: Turandot, La Boheme, Gianni Schicchi and Madame Butterfly
  • Bizet: Carmen
  • Delibes: Flower Duet from Lakme
  • Verdi: La Traviata and Rigoletto
  • Johann Strauss Jr: Die Fledermaus
  • Gilbert and Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore
  • “Je Veux Vivre” from Romeo and Juliet

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