In our occasional Words and Music segment on A Celtic Sojourn, we take poetry, prose, meditations, and pieces of fiction read aloud with complementary music and song. In this segment on loss, grieving ...

Musicians are a mischievous lot – as evidenced by the nickname ascribed to John Rutter’s A Gaelic Blessing. No sooner had it been composed in 1978 than it was being referred to as ‘A Garlic Dressing’.