On today’s show: investigative journalist Craig Unger discusses the stunning return of Karl Rove to a position of power in the GOP. Martin Amis talks about his latest novel, Lionel Asbo. Also, we’ll speak with Josh Radnor and Elizabeth Olsen the new film “Liberal Arts.” And we’ll look at the design and technologies that make sound carry so perfectly in a well designed opera house.
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Listen to music written in response to the 9/11 attacks. Pulitzer Prize-winning composers Steve Reich and John Adams each used an almost documentary approach to the events of 9/11; we’ll hear excerpts from both. Michael Gordon’s “The Sad Park” is built on recordings of young children in the playground on Chambers Street, two blocks from the World Financial Center, describing that morning. And Robert Moran’s new “Trinity Requiem” was written for the nearby Trinity Church choir. We’ll hear excerpts from those pieces as well on this New Sounds.
