Brief salutes to Beatles day, Otis Redding's birthday, and a not-so-brief look at the role of the mandolin in Gustav Mahler's music with guest master mandolinist HOWARD KADIS, who performed and toured with the San Francisco Symphony, and appears on three SF Symphony recordings including the just-issued Mahler's 8th Symphony. With Kadis as our guide, we tour various Classical and Baroque recordings featuring the mandolin.
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Year | ||
| John McCutcheon | "All God's Critters" | Howjadoo | Rounder | 1986 | 10:00 | 2:26 |
| The Beatles | "Hippy Hippy Shake" | Live at the BBC | Apple | 1994 | 10:03 | 1:48 |
| Grateful Dead | "Gloria" (Cal Expo '93) | Road Trips Vol 2, #4 | Grateful Dead | 2009 | 10:06 | 5:43 |
| Norton Buffalo | "Echoes of the Last Stampede" | Desert Horizon | Capitol | 1978 | 10:12 | 2:00 |
| Norton Buffalo | "Desert Horizon" | Desert Horizon | Capitol | 1978 | 10:14 | 4:40 |
| Otis Redding | "Try a Little Tenderness" | Monterey Pop Festival | Rhino | 1992 | 10:18 | 5:04 |
| Van Morrison | "Summertime in England" | Common One | Warner Bros. | 1980 | 10:23 | 15:30 |
| Howard Kadis, mandolinist | interview and mandolin demo | 10:40 | ||||
| Michael Tilson Thomas, SF Symphony | Mahler's 8th Symphony (excerpts) | Mahler: Symphony No. 8 | SF Symphony | 2009 | 10:50 | ? |
| MTT/SF Symphony | 4th mvt. | Mahler Symphony No. 7 | SF Symphony | 2005 | 11:11 | 13.30 |
| Europa Galante | Vivaldi: Concerto in C (excerpt) | Vivaldi Concertos for Mandolin | Virgin | 2002 | 11:26 | 4:20 |
| MTT/SF Symphony | excerpt featuring mandolin quartet | Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet | SF Symphony | 1996 | 11:30 | 2:20 |
| Gertrude Troster | Prelude XIV | Rafael Calace: Preludes | Thorofon | 1995 | 11:35 | 2:02 |
| Pete Seeger | "Or Else (One of these Days)" | At 89 | Appleseed | 2008 | 11:43 | 3:22 |
| Pete Seeger | "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy' | At 89 | Appleseed | 2008 | 11:47 | 3:36 |
| Otis Redding & Carla Thomas | "Tramp" | King & Queen | Atlantic | 1967 | 11:50 | 3:05 |
| Otis Redding | "A Hard Day's Night" | Otis! (4-CD box) | Rhino | 1993 | 11:52 | 2:08 |
| Otis Redding | "Change Gonna Come": | Otis! (4-CD box) | Rhino | 1993 | 11:54 | 4:16 |
