I’ve discovered a couple of new-to-me musical works I’ve really enjoyed. It’s as if music like this creates a whole other world, a world one can swim through…tranquilly like a cyclopean whale or darting about like curious minnows among the shadows of sunken driftwood cities, waving aquatic forests, and silent sea meadows. 

The first is Coronation Anthems by Handel. I was lying down listening to it and felt as if I was in the midst of a cascade of music, refulgent like a waterfall or a curtain of brilliant jewels.

The second piece is Dvorak’s Silhouettes. I listened to most of this standing up, and then restarted it when I lied down. It brought smiles to my face.