Virginia Schweninger, Harpist: Weddings

Virginia is available to provide harp music for wedding ceremonies, including prelude music, formal processionals and postlude. She is happy to assist the bride by recommendations of musical selections and will accompany soloists if needed. Virginia works regularly with other professional musicians, and can add a flute for a little extra sparkle.

Locations where Virginia often plays for weddings includes Keswick Hall, The Omni Hotel, Pharsalia Plantation, The Homestead, The Clifton Inn, Oakridge Estate, Wintergreen Resort, Veritas Winery, Del Fosse Winery, Farmington Country Club and the Boonsboro Country Club, the UVA Chapel and Carr's Hill, to name a few.

Wedding Music Repertoire

Following are categorized lists of pieces that are lovely on the harp

that are often used for Wedding Processional, Recessional

and Prelude music. We will be happy to plan a beautiful

Prelude for you making recommendations and

utilizing your suggestions. This is a partial list.

The possibilities are endless.

Wedding Ceremony

Processional & Recessional Suggestions

Bridal Chorus “Here Comes the Bride” / Wagner

The Wedding March (Traditional Recessional) / Mendelssohn

Canon In D / Pachelbel • Trumpet Tune / Purcell • Ode to Joy / Beethoven

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring / Bach • Trumpet Voluntary / Clarke

Gavotte from the Suite of Eight Dances / Salzedo

A Time for Us from “Romeo & Juliet” / Mancini

Love Theme from “Somewhere in Time”

“Feather Theme” from “Forest Gump”

Stairway to Heaven / Led Zeppelin

The Ash Grove - Brian Boru’s March

Selections for Prelude, Postlude & Reception

Religious Music

Amazing Grace • In The Garden • Ave Maria • Be Thou My Vision

I Can Only Imagine • In the Garden • Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring

Jesus Loves Me • Morning Has Broken • On Eagles’ Wings

Simple Gifts • Sheep May Safely Graze • Wondrous Cross

Erev Shel Shoshanim • Chorsha ha Eucaliptus • Bashana Haba’ah

Al Kol Eleh • Dodi Li • Hana’ava Babanot • Simon Tov

Folk/Celtic Tunes

Brian Boru’s March • Inis Sher • Londonderry Air • Si Bheag Si Mhor

The Ash Grove • Greensleeves • Wild Mountain Thyme

My Little Welsh Home •Fanny Power • Ashokan Farewell

• Hazel Grove • Shenandoah • Eleanor Plunkett

Mary Scott, Flower of Yarrow • L’ai & Retrouange

Carrickfergus • Innisfree • The Ash Grove

Classical

Arioso (Bach) • Clair De Lune (Debussy) • Finlandia Theme (Sibelius)

Intermezzo (Bizet) • Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bach)

La Basque (H & F) • La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin (Debussy) (H&F)

On Wings of a Song (Mendolssohn) • Prelude No. 1 in C (Bach)

Menuet (Bach) • Pachelbel Canon in D • Rachmaninoff’s Eighteenth Variation

Serenade (Persicetti) (H & F) • Sheep May Safely Graze (Bach)

Spanish Love Song (H & F) • Sonatina (Naderman)

The Little Fishes (Owens) • The Little Fountain (Pratt)

Trois Gymnopedies (Satie) (H & F) • Winter’s Largo / Four Seasons (Vivaldi)

Ode to Joy (Beethoven) and more

Popular Standards, Broadway & Film Music

A Time for Us / Romeo & Juliet

Ave Maria / Beyonce

A Whole New World / Disney's Aladdin

Always

All I Ask of You / Phantom of the Opera

Annie’s Song (Denver)

At Last

Beautiful Tonight (Clapton)

Beauty and the Beast

Come in from the Rain (Sager)

Colors of the Wind / Pochahontas

Danny Boy

Edelweiss (Rogers)

Feather Theme / Forest Gump

Forever in Love (Kenny G)

Fly Me to the Moon

Fragile (Sting)

Greensleeves

Hawaiian Wedding Song

Hymne (Vangelis)

I Can Only Imagine (Mercy Me)

If (Gates)

In the Looking Glass

It’s a Wonderful World

La Vie en Rose

Love Story

Love is Here to Stay (Gershwin)

Memory from Cats

Misty (Garner)

Moon River (Mancini)

More / Mondo Kane

Morning Has Broken

Music of the Night / Phantom of the Opera

My Treasure (Denver)

On Eagles Wings

Over the Rainbow

Out of Africa Theme / Barry

Perhaps Love

Send in the Clowns (Sondheim)

Smile / Glee (Chaplin)

Somewhere in Time (Barry)

Song from Secret Garden

Sounds of Silence (Simon)

Stairway to Heaven/Led Zeppelin

Tenderly

Terms of Endearment Theme

Theme from Schindler’s List (Williams)

They Were You / The Fantasticks

The Rose

The Wedding Song (There Is Love)

The Colors of the Wind / Pocohantas

Think of Me / Cats

Through the Eyes of Love / Ice Castles

Time After Time

To a Wile Rose

Try to Remember / The Fantasticks

Unchained Melody

Yellow Bird

What a Wonderful World

When You Wish Upon A Star

Winnie the Pooh