Video Information

• Choir: The Girl Choir of South Florida
• Piece: What sweeter music
• Composer:  John Rutter
• Conductor:  Wallis Peterson
• Voices:  SATB
• Sheet Music:   www.sheetmusicplus.com/ti...  
• Genres: Classical, Christmas
• "What sweeter music" by John Rutter. Text by Robert Herrick.
  
  Recorded live on December 14, 2014, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Chamber Singers and Men's Auxiliary ensembles of th...  more"What sweeter music" by John Rutter. Text by Robert Herrick.
  
  Recorded live on December 14, 2014, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Chamber Singers and Men's Auxiliary ensembles of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Gayle Giese.
  
  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!
  
  Dark and dull night, fly hence away,
  And give the honor to this day,
  That sees December turned to May.
  
  Why does the chilling Winter's morn
  Smile, like a field beset with corn?
  Or smell like a meadow newly shorn,
  Thus, on the sudden? Come and see
  
  The cause, why things thus fragrant be:
  'Tis He is born, whose quick'ning birth
  Gives life and luster, public mirth,
  To heaven, and the under-earth.
  
  We see Him come, and know Him ours,
  Who, with His sunshine, and His showers,
  Turns all the patient ground to flowers.
  
  The darling of the world is come,
  And fit it is, we find a room
  To welcome Him. The nobler part
  Of all the house here, is the heart,
  
  Which we will give Him; and bequeath
  This holly, and this ivy wreath,
  To do Him honor; who's our King,
  And Lord of all this reveling.
  
  What sweeter music can we bring,
  Than a carol, for to sing
  The birth of this our heavenly King?  less