Steve Shaw, I have sung the Mozart "Ave Verum Corpus" more often than I care to remember, always on Good Friday and at way too many funerals. I hope you have a competent church choir on tap for your own obsequies.

I first heard "Lagan Love" on an elderly Decca recording by Kenneth MacKellar. I was maybe eight years old. It riveted my attention then and fascinates me still. When I learned to sing it myself, I realized what a challenge it is; its long phrases demand the illusion of effortless ease achievable only with the best technique. Kenneth MacKellar, that prince of tenors, set that bar high (at least for me). The tune is the good part; the English words are rather silly. I wish I could sing it in Irish.