requiem

In addition to his 10 studio albums and two original operas, just this year his first musical, “Opening Night,” debuted in London’s West End, and his “Dream Requiem” for chorus and orchestra premiered in Paris.

“Requiem for a Heavyweight,” originally made for television and later a film, hit themes of age and brain damage.

It interweaves the traditional Latin text of the Requiem Mass with the anti-war poetry of soldier Wilfred Owen, who was killed a week before the Armistice.

In her album opener, "American Requiem," Beyoncé sang about this experience of alienation from the country world.

This tour de force contains an hour’s worth of haunting, intertwining phrases that feel like a combination of Requiem and Kaddish.