Imaginary

Music: songs and other short pieces

• What begins in kindness sometimes ends in far more: The Dixie Chicks, Travelin’ Soldier
• Paul Simon, “Tenderness”
• Nawang Khechog, Universal Dance of Kindness; Peace Through Kindness; Healing Through Kindness; The Human Heart Is for Kindness; Kindness As the Key

Music: Composers, artists, and major works

Especially in his later years, Louis Armstrong became an ambassador for music and in particular for American jazz. His persona exuded love and kindness, which were reflected in his music.

• Live with his All-Stars, May 8, 1954
• 1955 on The Colgate Comedy Show
• 1956: from the film “High Society”
• 1957 on The Edsel Show
• 1959 on The Bing Crosby Show
• 1962: Paris Jazz Concert, etc.
• 1963 interview in San Francisco
• Basin Street Blues, in Australia, 1964
• Satchmo in East Berlin, 1965
• 1965 on ABC
• At Fort Hood in 1967
• 1968 on the Bell Telephone Hour 
• What a Wonderful World – a marvelous expression of the musician and the man

Symphonies by Georg Christoph Wagenseil:

• WV 351 in C Major
• WV 361 in C Major
• WV 374 in D Major
• WV 393 in E Major
• WV 398 in F Major
• WV 413 in G Major
• WV 418 in G Minor
• WV 421 in A Major
• WV 432 in A Major
• WV 438 in B flat Major
• WV 441 in B flat Major

Napoléon-Henri Reber’s piano trios:

• No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 12
• No. 3 in G Minor, Op. 16
• No. 4 In D Major, Op. 25, “Sérénade”
• No. 5 in C Major, Op. 30
• No. 6 in E Major, Op. 34
• No. 7 in A Minor, Op. 37

Bériot:

• Violin Concerto No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 32
• Violin Concerto No. 3 in E Minor, Op. 44
• Violin Concerto No. 5 in D Major, Op. 55

Other compositions:

• Fauré, Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, 15 (1879): many musicologists suspect that Fauré composed in deliberate counterpoint to Wagner’s bluster.
• Foote, Piano Quartet in C Major, Op. 23 (1890): Foote’s biographer Nicholas Tawa described this quartet as benevolent and compassionate.
• Foote, String Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 4 (1883): Tawa characterized this work as warm, direct, simple and clear.
• De Fossa, 3 Quartets for 2 Guitars, Violin & Bass, Op. 19: No. 1, in D major (1. Allegro moderato; 2. ; 3. ; 4 Minuet. ); No. 2, in E major (1. ; 2. Tema con variazioni. Adagio; 3. Allegro; 4. Finale. Allegro); No. 3, in A major (1. Lento sensible e sostenuto; 2. ; 3. ; 4. Minuet - Allegro, Trio, Minuet; 5. Rondo. Allegro).
• Liszt, Les préludes (Poème symphonique 3), S97 (1863)
• Weber, Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 11, J98 (1810)
• Dvořák, Symphonic Variations, Op. 78, B170 (1877)
• Raga Chandrakauns usually is portrayed in visual art as a fair-skinned man, talking sweetly, wearing a leaf necklace and carring lotus and blossoms; or as a pale moon-god with a lotus in each hand. Here are performances by Sharma, Chaurasia and Dagar.

Albums:

• Deuter, “Sun Spirit”
• Zach Brock, “Almost never was”
• Jane Ira Bloom, “Mental Weather”

Film and Stage

• Zelary: in World-War-II Czechoslovakia, circumstances force a sophisticated young woman to marry a rough-hewn woodcutter. At first she is despondent but his kindness wins her loyalty and her heart.
• Deeds Goes to Town, about a manwho inherits a fortune and uses it to help others
• National Velvet: the young-girl protagonist shows kindnesstoward the horse and toward the injured and embittered jockey whose place she takes upon the horse 

Poetry

• Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”