I too am certain that "the real thing will survive and that people will be listening to Walter Pardon and Tom Lenihan a century hence", Jim. We agree there. Though I think they will be singing Webber's Padstow May Song and Bogle's "The band played Waltzing Matilda", too. And - don't turn your eyes up in horror now - perhaps, just perhaps, in some odd and unguarded moments, even "Eleanor Rigby".

What they will call them, I do not know. Perhaps "ancient music", perhaps each will be called something different or all referred to by the same term. It doesn't really matter. What matters is that they should be sung, because they all deserve to be - for different reasons and to varying degrees, but they deserve it. Always IMHO.