Today, I and 3 others sang at a funeral. We sang the following:
Bach: O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden (in a not-usual harmonization)
Faure: Pie Jesu (from the Requiem)
Byrd: Ave verum corpus
Mozart: Ave verum corpus
Praetorius: Es ist ein' Ros entsprungen (family request)
Faure: In paradisum (from the Requiem)
We knocked their socks off. Usually at these things, the audience talks
through the music. Here, they hushed one another up. There's supposedly
a priest shortage in the U.S. You couldn't prove it at that place. There
were 10 priests officiating (not counting the ones in the audience). The
deceased's brother is a priest.
We got paid $50 apiece. The accompanist got $75.
Steve Schwartz