Tableau Vivants

Tim McCord's famous 2011 photo

Tableau vivants are literally "living pictures".  A couple centuries ago they were the rage; a stage filled with folks, perhaps in costume, animals and buildings, all frozen in something of a downstage Creche - the perfect example of one by the way. Camels enter stage right.

Music was composed specially for these scenes and what better way to heighten the effect of some exotic scene.  I suppose it is a mood thing; meloncholy, sentimental etc., but it is an honest thought.  When your mind's eye captures something, what do you stick in your brain to go along with it. Smell?  A feeling on your skin?  The sound it makes?  What?

Saturday night the moon is going to rise up and be 3% or so bigger than you have seen it for some time.  Three percent doesn't sound like much but for those of us with a clear easterly water view it will be like some gigantic balloon rising out of the sea and 3% will make a huge difference.

The question is, what music to play while viewing this magnificent stage tableau?  What fits?  I got mine. What is yours? (and if you think this is an easy choice - well, your turn)