Director Sofia Bohdanowicz seems well aware she is offering up a puzzle whose pieces aren’t intended to neatly lock ...

From fulfilling funerary functions, to eulogising friends and fellow artists, or lamenting the waste of war: here are some of the finest examples of music written in mourning.

"O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done." These evocative lines from Walt Whitman's famous poem encapsulate the emotional weight many of us feel when confronted with the end of a life journey ...

Almost eight hours of Martha Argerich on film. What a glorious prospect! This six-DVD set mostly consists of recordings of live concerts. The set was released to celebrate the great Argentinian’s 80th ...

When you think of funeral music what songs come to mind? Hymns and classical music used to be people’s go to – but all that’s changing. Gerry and the Pacemaker’s ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ has taken ...

If everything goes as planned, I’m going to die of (un)natural(ly cool) causes at the age of 104 in a pile of naked women, surrounded by chocolate fountains and a dedicated army of corgi minions. The ...

We asked folks on-air during The Record and on social media for their afterlife theme song. This is the playlist that came about as a result. Oddly enough, nobody mentioned Frank Sinatra's "My Way." ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a famous classical composer from Austria. He began making music as a child and wrote over 600 pieces in his short life. While awards as we know them today did not exist in ...

Who gets the last laugh? The British, it seems, after a study out Friday revealed that Monty Python’s “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” is the most-played song at funerals in the United Kingdom ...