NPR (TM) ALBUM REVIEWS FROM WUNC RADIO 7/1 - 7/7 1996 July 1, 1996: A report on the recent release featuring 10 North American flautists called "Tribal Winds" (009362425832). Their next album will be called "Tribal Voices". The report was by Jim Wallace. July 2, 1996: Songwriter Nil Lara talked with Elizabeth Perez-Luna about the influences on his music. July 2, 1996: Reviewer Tom Moon looked at the new movement in rock and roll: sadcore. "60 Watt Silver Lining" by Mark Eitzel (009362461522); "Ask Me Tomorrow" by Mojave 3 (009362460842); "The Blue Moods of Spain" by Spain (001877729102). July 3, 1996: A profile of singer/songwriter Syd Straw whose new CD is "War and Peace" (073145324572). The profile was prepared by Elizabeth Blair of WHYY. July 4, 1996: On Talk of the Nation, a look at the life and music of John Phillip Sousa. July 4, 1996: John Flansburgh of Mono Puff spoke to Robert Siegel and played selections from their new CD "Unsupervised" (001443103602). July 4, 1996: A memoir of John Cage's composition "Apartment House 1776" by Makota Little Eagle whose father Swift Eagle was part of the production twenty years ago. July 4, 1996: Robert Siege; visited the Festival of American Folklife on the Mall in Washington, DC talking to a variety of people and bands including Beausoleil, the Treme Brass band, the Birmingham Sunlights, and three different unnamed bands from Iowa. July 6, 1996: The Louisiana Hayride Band, led by Tillman Franks and Margaret Lewis, visited the NPR studios to talk with Scott Simon. July 7, 1996: Pianist Fred Hersch chatted with Liane Hansen about the music of Billy Strayhorn. He has a CD featuring performances of Strayhorn's music called "Passion Flower" (79395-2 Nonesuch). Albums mentioned on Monitor Radio (R): July 3, 1996: A profile of the Mexican group Los Folkloristas who have spent 30 years gathering music from throughout Latin America. Albums profiled on Fresh Air with host Terry Gross: July 2, 1996: "It's a Man's World" by Cher (009362461792). July 4, 1996: "As Long As I'm Singing" a Bobby Darin box set produced by Nick Venet (008122722062). July 5, 1996: REVIEW by Rock Critic Ken Tucker: "Load" by Metallica (007559619232). COMING UP ON NPR's PERFORMANCE TODAY - JULY 1 - 8, 1996 Tuesday, July 2 Hour 1--PT commentator and Wall St. Journal music critic Barrymore Laurence Scherer reviews a new series of recordings by music director Andrew Litton and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. The first CD release, devoted to music by Tchaikovsky, will be followed by compact discs featuring works by Shostakovich (October 1996) and Mahler (early 1997). But the Dallas Symphony isn't limited to sound alone; the orchestra will be featured in a July 3 PBS television special, "The Dallas Symphony Orchestra: Music of Bernstein, Barber and Beethoven" with guest solo violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg. Thursday, July 4 - HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY! Hour 1--PT celebrates the 4th of July in Studio 4A with the Waverly Consort and a patriotic picnic of tunes from early America. We'll hear all 13 members of the New York-based Consort, including co-directors Michael and Kay Jaffe, perform the colonial classics "Yankee Doodle," the Anglo-Appalachian ballad "Sons of Liberty," and an array of country dances from their new CD, "An American Journey: Bound for the Promised Land" (Angel 7243 5 55522-2). Hour 2--Martin and critic Ted Libbey plant Old Glory in the PT Basic Record Library, and add a trio of recordings by American composers: "An American Tapestry," works by William Schuman, Charles Thomlinson Griffes, Alan Houhannes and Walter Piston (Dallas Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Litton/Dorian DOR-902240), "The Incredible Flutist," works by Walter Piston, Daniel Gregory Mason, Peggy Stuart Coolidge, Ulysses Kay, and William Grant Still (various orchestras and conductors/Vox Box CDX 5157), and "A Symphony: New England Holidays" by composer Charles Ives (Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus/Michael Tilson Thomas/CBS Masterworks MK 42381). Friday, July 5 Hour 1--Martin talks with the intriguing performer Meredith Monk. A composer, artist, singer, filmmaker and choreographer, Monk is currently the subject of a four-month exhibition at the New York Public Library, "Archeology of an Artist." Monk talks to Martin about her latest CD, which pairs her own compositions with the songs of medieval abbess and composer Hildegard of Bingen. ("Monk and the Abbess"/Catalyst 09026-68329-2) 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.