This list reflects the programming of WUNC Radio: All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, Weekend Edition Saturday and Sunday, Fresh Air, Monitor Radio Early Edition, The People's Pharmacy and Soundings. NPR (TM) ALBUM REVIEWS FROM WUNC RADIO 4/8 - 4/14 1996 April 9, 1996: A profile of musician and composer Mel Powell, by Dean Olsher, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1990. In the early 1940s he played with the Benny Goodman Orchestra, but he has since left performing for the obscurity of composing, preferring the knowledge he is in the same profession as Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. April 9, 1996: A profile of singer Maria McKee, by Elizabeth Blair (WHYY); McKee's newest album is "Life is Sweet" (Geffen 072064248192). April 9, 1996: The cello playing of David Darling inspired a story of hope and spirit by writer Barry Lopez. Darling's latest CD features the story as part of its liner notes: "Darkwood" (ECM Records 078118215192). April 10, 1996: Tom Manoff reviewed a new recording of Handel's Water Music performed by Tafelmusik (Sony 007464682572). April 11, 1996: David Barnett reported on the NY gathering (on April 12) to remember late jazz musician Richard "Lord" Buckley. April 12, 1996: David D'Arcy did a report on Brazil's rich legacy of concert music, being featured "this" week as part of the Sounds of the Americas series, presented by the American Composers Orchestra. April 12, 1996: Bluesman Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown talked with Noah Adams about his new album at 72: "Long Way Home" (Gitanes Jazz Production 073145294652). April 13, 1996: Jimmy Amadie, who has severe tendinitis, talked to Scott Simon about his first and his upcoming CD, "Always with Me" (TP Recordings, Bala Cynwyd, PA Tel# -- (610)667-0887). April 14, 1996: Pianist Michael Habermann is one of the few people who can play the music of English composer Sorabji. He talked with Liane Hansen about Sorabji and his new CD "Sorabji -- Works for Piano" (Elan CD 82264). April 14, 1996: In a story about the photographs of Thomas Roma of African-American churches in Brooklyn, Weekend All Things Considered included music from two churches: Reverend Jerry Burns and the Open Door Singers (Open Door Outreach Ministry) and The Mo Gbeke Mi Le O Choir Band (Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church Olutunu). Albums profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: April 8, 1996: REVIEW by Classical Music Critic Lloyd Schwartz, followed by an interview with Lorraine Hunt: "Handel: Ariodante" featuring mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt (Harmonia Mundi). April 10, 1996: "60 Watt Silver Lining" by Mark Eitzel (Warner Brothers 009362461522). April 12, 1996: Record producer Don Was, who also co-founded the funk group Was (Not) Was. He produced Bonnie Raitt's "Nick of Time" (007777912682) and Brian Wilson's "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" (MCA 000881112702). COMING UP ON NPR'S PERFORMANCE TODAY - APRIL 8 - 15, 1996 Monday, April 8 Hour 1--In 1933, Leopold Stokowski became the first conductor to record a symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich and in 1939, he was the first to record the Shostakovich Fifth. In the next 20 years he learned a lot, says PT historic recordings critic Leslie Gerber, on the basis of a 1959 recording of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony with New York's Stadium Symphony, one of several Stokowski reissues just out on the Everest label. [Everest EVC 9030] Plus, letters and comments from our listeners. Wednesday, April 10 Hour 2--The Dowager Empress Maria of Austria is remembered as a woman of great refinement, a true "Renaissance woman." Court composer Tomas Luis de Victoria wrote the music for her funeral in 1603; nearly four centuries later, his requiem for an empress has found new life on compact disc. Harvard early music professor Thomas Kelly reviews Victoria's Requiem, performed by the Gabrieli Consort under the direction of Paul McCreesh. ["Victoria Requiem: Officium defunctorum"/Gabrieli Consort/McCreesh/Archiv 447 095-2] Thursday, April 11 Hour 2--PT commentator Ted Libbey and Martin add three recordings of the Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor in by Polish composer Henryk Wieniawski (HEN-rik vee-en-YAWF-skee) to the Performance Today Basic Record Library. FOR MORE PROGRAM INFORMATION, COME AND BROWSE PERFORMANCE TODAY'S WORLD WIDE WEB PAGE.... http://www.npr.org/programs/PerformanceToday/pt.html Album Lists are now available on the internet via anonymous ftp (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/literature/book-reviews) and by gopher (gopher sunsite.unc.edu under the NEWS! then Books from WUNC Radio option). This text is Copyright (c) 1996 by WUNC Radio (WUNCRADIO@UNC.EDU) and Erika Grams (compiler). All Rights Reserved. Permission is granted by the copyright holder to distribute this file electronically or otherwise in full as long as attribution is made.