NPR: All Songs Considered: Episode 2

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This program was originally posted in March, 2000.

For more on these artists, check out our related features and interviews from NPR's All Things Considered and Morning Edition.

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Art and electronics from George Pelecis
A string quartet tribute to R.E.M.
The bongo bong of Manu Chao
The music tree of Newgrange
Variations on the ATC theme song
The legendary and late artist, Stan Getz
A bowl of fire from Andrew Bird

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Selections from this album
were also featured as part
of the All Songs Considered
memorial to those lost in
the terrorist attacks against
the United States on the
eleventh of September, 2001.

George Pelecis

Listen to: Three Pieces for Two Pianos, Third Movement:
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from Art & Electronics (MCA Classics)

We have no purchase information for this CD.

From their very first single,
the 1981 tune "Radio Free
Europe," REM became a model
for American rock acts. The
four musicians insisted on
doing things their own way,
recording what they wanted,
and building an audience
slowly.

Arrangers: Ron Hannah & Todd Rubenstein

Listen to It's The End of the World As We Know It; The One I Love:
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from The String Quartet Tribute To R.E.M. (Vitamin Records)

Listen to an interview with R.E.M.

Visit R.E.M's official Web site.

In addition to this Manu Chao
track, the World Playground CD
has a great selection of songs
for children.

Manu Chao

Listen to Bongo Bong:
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from World Playground (Putumayo Music)

Listen to an interview with Manu Chao from All Things Considered.

Visit Manu Chao's official Web site.

"A really important thing I've
learned from working in
Newgrange is that a real
traditional kind of music can
be an absolutely creative
kind of music."

-- Phil Aaberg of Newgrange

NewGrange

Listen to Music Tree:
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from Newgrange (Compass Records)

The band in NPR's recording
studio 4-A

Arranger: Wycliffe Gordon with Reginald Veal on bass, Herlin Riley on drums, and Loston Harris on piano

Listen to Trio Theme:
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from Billboard Themes (NPR)

Arranger Wycliffe Gordon took the All Things Considered theme song and transformed it into this beautiful jazz piece.

We have no purchase information for this CD.

"I took a few saxophone
lessons at the beginning,
but that's about all. I went
on the road when I was 15,
and everything I learned
has been in what you might
call the traveling academics.

--Stan Getz

Stan Getz

Listen to Blood Count:
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from Anniversary!(Verve)

Listen to Stan Getz's obituary from NPR's Morning Edition.

"What's so wonderful about
this music, and so rare now,
is that those musicians
would play each note like it
was, you know, the last note
they would ever get to play."

-- Andrew Bird

Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire

Listen to Candy Shop:
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from Oh! The Grandeur (Rykodisc)

Listen to Linda Wertheimer's talk with Andrew Bird.

Visit the official Andrew Bird Web site.

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