warmer, sweeter be, For you will bend and tell me that you love me, And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me." In February 2002. an independent film-maker, Johnny Watts, met Eily Patterson on Staten Island, New York. This meeting resulted in The Tribute in Song, a series of three one-hour programmes featuring Patterson's music to commemorate those killed in Manhattan in 9/11 which also became a moving tribute to Frank Patterson himself. In September 2008, Watts personally presented to the Irish consulate in New York City, a plaque that honoured Frank Patterson's contribution to Tribute in Song. It was intended that the plaque would be returned to Patterson's native Clonmel. A bronze life-size piece by sculptor Jerry McKenna from Texas, titled "The Golden Tenor Statue", was unveiled to his memory in Mick Delahunty Square, Clonmel, in June 2002. References Sources "It was said the whole world seemed still when he sang" (obituary), in The Irish Times, 17 June 2000. External links Documented recitals in Ireland by Patterson from Arts and Humanities Research Council (hosted by Cardiff University and the Royal College of Music). 1938 births 2000 deaths 20th-century Irish male opera singers Irish operatic tenors Knights of Malta Knights of St. Gregory the Great Knights of the Holy Sepulchre Musicians from County Tipperary