Bach and Vivaldi and Scarlatti, Oh My!

It's almost midnight. I thought some on-line classical music would help set the mood to pen an account of an eventful day. (To pen something using a wordprocessor is an oxymoron in today's Internet speak. Sigh.)

Alas, my favorite Winamp station has been playing continuously a string (pun) of "bouncy" Bach partitas, Vivaldi concerti, and Scalatti's quartets. Enough already.

I suppose it's too much to hope at this late hour for John Rutter's choral piece "What Sweeter Music." It's taken from the original title A Christmas Carol Sung to the King in the Presence at Whitehall by Robert Herrick (1591-1674).

Chorus: What sweeter music can we bring,
than a carol for to sing
the birth of this our heavenly King?
Awake the voice! awake the string!
Heart, ear, and eye, and everything
awake! the while the active finger
runs division with the singer.

Now, that's a piece to reflect upon and to pen by.

I am going to call it a night.