Elliott Forrest fills in for Leonard Lopate. On today’s show: Actor and musician Jeff Daniels talks about playing at 54 Below and his Emmy-winning role as Will McAvoy on HBO’s “The Newsroom.” Robert Carlin describes how North and South Korea have diverged since the end of World War II. Curator Anne Umland talks about the Surrealist work of René Magritte that’s on view at MoMA. Plus, New Yorker contributing writer James Carroll discusses Pope Francis.
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This New Sounds brings music by Canadian composer Vivian Fung inspired Indonesian gamelan, along with other works by westerners that look to that archipelago’s music. Fung, on her record, "Dreamscapes,” draws on the fast interlocking rhythms of Balinese gamelan and to a degree - John Cage’s prepared piano- to create an eerie soundworld on “Glimpses.”
