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 5/13 - 5/19 1996 May 13, 1996: Dean Olsher interviewed biographers and musicians about the influence of Kurt Weil, during New York's designated "Kurt Weil Week". May 15, 1996: Pete Seeger talked to Bob Edwards about his new album "Pete" (Living Music LMUS 0032). May 17, 1996: A review by Daisann McLane of the two volume compact disc set "The Secret Museum of Mankind" (Yazoo Records 7005), a compilation featuring rare ethnic music from the years 1925-1948. May 18, 1996: Scott Simon remembered country singer Walter Hyatt. May 19, 1996: Canandian jazz musician Jane Bunnett spoke to Jacki Lyden about her music and the influence of Cuban and Brazilian melodies. Her latest CD is "Jane Bunnett Rendez-Vous Brazil Cuba" (Justin Time Records). May 20, 1996: A profile of Indian percussionist Vikku Vinayakram by Karen Michel. Albums profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: May 14, 1996: A tribute to singer/songwriter Walter Hyatt who died in the Valujet crash. His most recent solo album is "Music Town" (Sugar Hill SH-CD 1039). COMING UP ON NPR's PERFORMANCE TODAY - MAY 13 - 20, 1996 Wednesday, May 15 Hour 1--Leonard Slatkin, music director-designate of the National Symphony Orchestra, talks with Martin about a legal case that's created a buzz in the music world: Conductor Claudio Abbado (ah-BAH-doe) is suing the record label Deutsche Grammophon for putting excerpts of recordings he's conducted on "compilation" CDs. While Abbado objects to abridging a symphony performance, some people say the compilation discs bring classical music to a wider audience. Hour 2--The 16-year-old Philadelphia Renaissance Wind Band has a new name--Piffaro--and a new CD. Katrine Ames, senior editor at House and Garden magazine and a music critic for Newsweek, talks with Martin about Piffaro's lively "Canzoni e Danze: Wind Music From Renaissance Italy." ["Canzoni e Danze," Archiv 445 883-2] Thursday, May 16 Hour 2--Martin and Ted Libbey add three recordings of Monteverdi's Vespers of the Blessed Virgin, written in 1610, to the PT Basic Record Library. [The Scholars Baroque Ensemble/Naxos Early Music 8.550662-3; La Capella Reial/Jordi Savall/Astree E 8719; Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner/DG Archiv 429 565-2.] 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.