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Most composers who wrote Requiems, went for the dramatic. Gabriel Faure took a different approach, which many feel to be more appropriate. See what you think as we look at the Faure Requiem this Sunday.

We’re going way back in time this Sunday with music that is Medieval or that has Medieval roots, beginning with the Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos and their sleeper best-seller CD of Gregorian chants released nack in 1994.

We lighten it up a bit this week, going back to the 1878 London comedy stage with a complete performance of Gilbert & Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore, in which love conquers all (or mostly all) on board the most preposterous ship in the Royal Navy.

In 1928, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill teamed up to produce The Threepenny Opera. This week we’ll have some of the original cast members performing their roles in historic period recordings of nearly a hundred years ago.

Dmitri Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony, written largely in Leningrad during the 842-day siege of World War II, is pure defiance. Until a few weeks ago, it was a piece of history. Now, suddenly, it seems timely and appropriate.

When the Pilgrims left Southampton in 1620, they left behind a thriving European musical scene. Not that the Pilgrims listened to much music; actually they tended to frown on it. But just for fun, we’ll listen to some of the tunes they might have heard if they had been listening — which they weren’t.

Before leaving his hometown of Salzburg, Mozart wrote the first of his three great masses, the only one he actually finished, the Coronation Mass in C major. We’ll hear it this Sunday.

An uproar followed comments by Sanofi's CEO that if the company develops a vaccine, doses would likely go to Americans first. The board president later insisted, "Any vaccine will be a public good."

Hank Bolden is one of thousands of U.S. soldiers exposed to secret nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s. He's now using compensation money from the federal government to focus on his first love: music.

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders sparred over Wall Street's influence on politics, which candidate is more loyal to President Obama and the record of Henry Kissinger as secretary of state.