Music for your funeral

[Croynan]

Stephen Sondheim - "Send in the Clowns" - A Little Night Music

Stephen Sondheim - "Or Am I Losing My Mind" - Follies

Jerry Herman - "Time Heals Everything" - Mack and Mabel

Stephen Sondheim - "No One Is Going to Harm You" - Sweeney Todd Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Stephen Sondheim - "Chrysanthemum Tea" - Pacific Overtures

Stephen Sondheim - "Not a Day Goes By" - Merriyly We Roll Along

Stephen Sondheim - "Comedy Tonight" - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Sergei Prokofiev - "Cinderella" - Ballet Score

Sergei Prokoviev - "Romeo and Juliett - Ballet Score

The Music is to be played at my grave side daily as I shall have been cremated. I want the music to also be enjoyed by all those who are present due to a day of sorrow in remembering a friend and or family member.

Please everyone, just come and enjoy the music. I shall be in a lovely location. Underneath a tree to the right of my grandmother. It is really a lovely cemetary. and has a beautiful memorial of running water in memory of Al Jolson. And don't worry there are no tombstones - it is all greenery and looks like a lovely park. And if I decide I want to travel, is is near the Los Angeles Airport.

 

[lawdude]

I don't think I will have a funeral but if I did I would want it to be joyful and uplifting music. I would want my funeral to be a party, not the sad, depressed funerals I have been to in my life.

 

[RationalLunacy]

"Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile"

~ or ~

"Yes, We Have No Bananas"

 

[Brijan]

I would say that the entire funeral/reception is for my living family and friends.
If they do have one, which I suspect will still be the norm when I die, I would like "Untitled" by the Crash Test Dummies played at the very end of the service.
Everything else is up to their discretion.

 

[roypgh]

Final movement, Finzi Cello Concerto.

 

[SomethingBlue]

I don't want to have a funeral. But as they're scattering my ashes, if someone wants to play "Roam" by the B-52's, that would be cool.

 

[ronnie_h]

Music for my funeral? I will be dead.. so what?

 

[cosmicblue]

The Rose, Bette Middler,

 

[Mr Frodo]

Great Jubilatoin by Barbara Streisand.

 

[winterknight]

I'm not sure I'd want anything.

But then I want a zoroastrian air burial, so maybe I'm weird.

Oh, wait... there's no "maybe" about it.

 

[joeG23]

Here's to the Ladies Who Lunch - Sondheim - as the coffin goes into the incinerator.

Light My Fire as the burners start up, and Goodness Gracious Great Balls of Fire as the flames lick round my privates.

 

[Crashdown]

Tori Amos - Crucify

 

[jtechsan]

I'd like some classical music: "The Lark Ascending" by Ralph Vaughan Williams for a short solemn remembrance. Then Prince, the Stones, Bonnie Raitt, Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones, Laura Nyro, Toy Matinee, The Story, Rufus Wainwright, etc. at their most up-beat for the rest of the party!

 

[SeliaN]

The problem with songs at funerals, is when people hear it again afterwards, they feel a bit depressed, if they miss you that is. I don't really want to give any song that kind of conotation, except for those songs that made me feel depressed because they sucked so much. So for me that would be britney spears and enrique eglesias and such... (Not trying to offend anybody's taste or anything)

 

[hornyshauny]

The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams

A piece of music that captures my love of the English countryside, and the wonderful times that I have spent there.

 

[Beaverhausen]

I don't know what music I'll have played at mine, but my mom has always told me that she wants us to play Rod Stewart at her funeral and dance in the isles! It's the whole "celebrate my life don't mourn my death" thing, and I think it's great.

 

[eddielee]

It will be some of my favorite old church hymns. "Blessed Assurance" and "I know who holds Tomorrow"

 

[Fastdavy]

Party music.Disco(ok,I'm old)Anything that would remind people of me and my love of music and maybe finish up with the last movement of Mahler's Eighth Symphony.Very inspireing

 

[ahotjock71]

1. Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber
2. Angel - Sarah McLachlan
3. You Must Love Me - Madonna
4. I Can't Complain - Patti LaBelle

 

[dynk]

Is that all there is. by Barbara Streisand