Different from the standard Requiem format, Gabriel Fauré’s work contains no Dies irae, and adds two prayers from the burial office: the "Libera me" and "In Paradisum." Fauré noted in an interview ...

We will get to the 19th century, and to the music that transforms me into a merman, but first we must start with zombies. In a funeral program, In Paradisum is for the moment a corpse is transported ...

Conductors generally like applause, and some are good at milking it. But on Friday evening at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, the French-Canadian Bernard Labadie did the opposite: He asked the audience ...