Jul 3rd, 2008 · Music is traditional at a funeral, like "Mozart's Requiem" and "Amazing Grace." But, "Highway to Hell"? A cemetery manager in Adelaide, Australia, says he's getting more requests for classic rock than he is for classical music.
Jun 8th, 2008 · After surviving the bombing of Hiroshima, Ikuo Hirayama went on to turn the devastation into art, creating through his paintings a "requiem" for those who lost their lives in the war. "I believe that flowers can blossom from anguish and inhumanity," he says.
Nov 11th, 2007 · Grace Cathedral in San Francisco performed Gabriel Faure's Requiem on Veterans Day, and broke with tradition, dedicating the music not just to fallen soldiers, but to all souls.
Aug 16th, 2007 · Born and raised among the jazz greats of New Orleans, renowned trumpeter Terence Blanchard captured the city's devastation in his film score for Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke. He discusses his latest project, "A Tale of God's Will (a requiem for Katrina)."
Aug 14th, 2007 · Part of the jazz trumpeter and composer's A Tale of God's Will served as the soundtrack to Spike Lee's moving When the Levees Broke documentary about Hurricane Katrina. Blanchard shares two solo piano performances with WBGO's Josh Jackson.
Mar 16th, 2007 · Funerals celebrate life as much as they mourn the departed, and Robert Glasper's poignant requiem "Tribute" -- assembled in honor of his mother -- makes no secret of that. Glasper and his bandmates initiate a plaintive piano-trio hymn that soon underscores Rev. Joe Ratliff's poetic eulogy.
Jan 27th, 2007 · Leading figures from the classical music community perform Verdi's Requiem at Carnegie Hall in a benefit for victims of the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan.
Aug 21st, 2006 · TV critic David Bianculli previews When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, Spike Lee's two-part HBO documentary about New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The program airs Monday and Tuesday at 9:00 p.m. ET.