Mixtape

Audio / Video files of songs mentioned in this Love in the Time of Cholera.

Day after day, over and over again for several months, 

he played the songs of Yvette Guilbert and Aristide Bruant, 

who had charmed France during the last century, 

until the parrot learned them by heart.

The group from the School of Fine Arts began their concert in formal silence achieved for the opening bars of Mozart's "La Chasse."

... he could still engage in serious conversation and follow a concert at the same time, although he never reached the masterful extremes of a German orchestra conductor, a great friend of his during his time in Austria, who read the score of Don Giovanni while listening to Tannhauser.

He thought that the second piece on the program, Schubert's "Death and the Maiden," was played with facile theatricality.  

Taking advantage of the visit of the famous pianist Romeo Lussich, 

who played a cycle of Mozart sonatas as soon as the city had recovered from mourning the death of General Ignacio Maria, 

Dr. Juvenal Urbino had the piano from the Music School placed in a 

mule-drawn wagon and brought a history-making serenade to Fermina Daza.

...  the reception ended after midnight on board the brightly lit ocean liner, with a Viennese orchestra that was premiering the most recent waltzes of Johann Strauss on this voyage.

The same bookseller agreed to mail him the most attractive scores from the Ricordi catalogue, chamber music above all, 
so that he could maintain the well-deserved title earned by his father 
as the greatest friend of concerts in the city.

Inside the shell of a soulless merchant was hidden a genial lunatic, as willing to bring forth a spring of lemonade in the Guajira Desert as 
to flood a solemn funeral with weeping at his heartbreaking rendition of 
"In Questa Tomba Oscura."

Someone had told him that Enrico Caruso could shatter a vase with the power of his voice, and he spent years trying to imitate him, 
even with the windowpanes. 

... he thought it a good idea to sing "When I Wake Up in Glory," a beautiful and moving funeral song from Louisiana, and he was told to be quiet by the priest, who could not understand that Protestant intrusion in his church.

Florentino Ariza attended every concert and opera performed in the city 
.... "I like Gardel," he said.

 ... he had spent a year selling subscriptions to bring the Cortot-Casals-Thibaud trio to the Dramatic Theater ...

His singular interest in false teeth had developed on one of his first trips along the Magdalena River and was the result of his maniacal love for bel canto.  One night when the moon was full, at the entrance of the port of Gamarra, he made a wager with a German surveyor that he could awaken the creatures of the jungle by singing a Neapolitan romanza from the Captain's balustrade.  He almost lost the bet.  In the river darkness one could hear the flapping wings of cranes in the marshes, the thudding tails of the alligators, the terror of the shad as they tried to leap onto dry land, but on the final note, when it was feared that the singer would burst his arteries with the power of his song, his false teeth dropped out of his mouth with his last breath and fell into the water.

"The only frustration I carry away from this life is that of singing at so many funerals except my own."

... On the few occasions when she was alone in the house she would turn the volume very low and listen to distant clear merengues from Santa Domingo and plenas from Puerto Rico