A full listening list from the talk given at Festival No. 6: Not So Classical.
- Maple Leaf Rag - Scott Joplin
- Rhapsody in Blue - George Gershwin
- Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini - Sergei Rachmaninov
- Golliwog's Cakewalk - Claude Debussy
- Clair de Lune - Claude Debussy
- Violin Sonata No. 2 - Maurice Ravel
- Ragtime for Eleven Instruments - Igor Stravinsky
- La Creation du Monde - Darius Milhaud
- Le Piccadilly - Erik Satie
- Gymnopedie No. 1 - Erik Satie
- Mack the Knife - Kurt Weill (sung by Lotte Lenya)
- Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano - Bela Bartok
- Black, Brown, & Beige - Duke Ellington
- Symphonic Dances from West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein
- Machine Gun - Jimi Hendrix
- The Star Spangled Banner - Jimi Hendrix
- A Day In The Life - The Beatles
- Gesang der Jünglinge - Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles
- Diamorphoses - Iannis Xenakis
- Heroin - The Velvet Underground
- Kontakte - Karlheinz Stockhausen
- For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music
- Warszawa - David BOwie
- I Zimbra - Talking Heads
- Open The Kingdom - Phillip Glass
- O Superman - Laurie Anderson
- Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan
- Push Pulk/Spinning Plates - Radiohead
- Ionisation - Edgard Varese
- Help I'm A Rock - Frank Zappa
- The Perfect Stranger - Pierre Boulez, Frank Zappa
- Freak Out! - The Mothers of Invention
- An Echo, A Stain - Björk
- Le Marteau sans Maître - Pierre Boulez
- Says - Nils Frahm
- Mercury - Planetarium, featuring Nico Muhly, Sufjan Stevens, and Bryce Dessner
- All My Friends - LCD Soundsystem