The title of Paradise Episode 5 is taken from a line in Darkness, the hauntingly beautiful Lord Byron poem that bookends this ...

F ive years ago, when Rufus Wainwright began composing Dream Requiem — an epic orchestral work “for the people we have lost ...

Gothic is a psychosexual thriller that gives audiences an insight into the events surrounding Frankenstein ’s invention and ...

Albeit a solo work requiring a soprano, conductor, 220 classical musicians and choral singers, and based on Lord Byron’s 1816 end-of-days poem Darkness, as well as on the Latin Mass for the Dead ...

Any stories we tell about the end of the world will have to be fictional, since once the real thing occurs, no one will be ...

The Canadian-American musician joins Q’s Tom Power over Zoom to discuss his new album, Dream Requiem, narrated by Meryl ...

Earth is the focus of this week’s Paradise, an hour that also sees Xavier officially go rogue. We’ve got a lot of poor-little ...

Lord Byron wrote the poem “Darkness,” envisioning a sunless Earth that becomes “a lump of death.” Compared with the heavenly bliss promised at the end of Revelation, Byron’s godless ...

He attributes the first works of “secular eschatology” to Lord Byron—who wrote a poem about the forlorn end of the world called “Darkness,” and Mary Shelley, whose 1826 novel The Last ...

This is a requiem mass for our times – and there is much to lament – inspired by Verdi’s Requiem but also spliced with suitably authoritative readings by Meryl Streep of Lord Byron’s poem ...

Lord Byron’s poem Darkness, about the devastation of the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, becomes a prescient folk song. In their 43rd year of existence, Primal Scream, a band ...

Lynskey, whose range is impressively ecumenical, tells us that secular eschatology properly began in the early nineteenth century with the publication of Lord Byron’s poem “Darkness.” ...