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April is finally here, it's Poetry Month and we have a big display just inside our front door to think of those selections for your gift giving and personal enlightenment. Moreover, for the month of April we will be discounting our travel guide section 20% to all members.

But the truly big, big event of the month is the arrival in town of the Rock Bottom Remainders Tour. This funk-literary band - comprised of authors Mitch Albom, Dave Barry, Roy Blount, Jr., Greg Iles, James McBride, Ridley Pearson, Amy Tan, and Scott Turow - will be in DC for a benefit concert. They may not be the best musicians you've ever heard (although Roger McGuinn, founder of The Byrds, will be joining them in Washington), but they are among the best authors you have read.  Between them they have published more than 150 titles, sold more than 150 million books, and been translated into more than 25 languages.

The real mission of the Rock Bottom Remainders is to promote awareness of the importance of literacy and support worthwhile causes. The DC events support Haiti relief efforts through World Vision and the work of America's Promise.  The tour is presented by The Pearson Foundation and it's new initiative, We Give Books.  Five books will be donated by Pearson to DC Public Schools per ticket sold. Politics and Prose is also a sponsor of this Washington leg of the tour.

DC gets two special events: 

April 20 at The Harman Center:  The Remainders in conversation with Sam Donaldson on their music, their writing current events and whatever Sam comes up with.
April 21 at the 9:30 Club -- The Remainders in concert with special guest Roger McGuinn

The Remainders are offering a special package to book groups for either or both evenings: purchase 10 tickets, receive 12.  There are also other options, including VIP receptions allowing hang time with the authors both before and after the events, plus a package of individually autographed books.  

We hope to see you there. For more information and to buy tickets, visit rockbottomremainders.com.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS - THE BIG READ DC
This spring in partnership with The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the DC Public Library, venues across Washington are offering events and discussions around the book A LESSON BEFORE DYING by Ernest J. Gaines. We are pleased to host two in-store events here at Politics & Prose.

Sunday, April 25th, 5 p.m.
Faith and Doubt in "A Lesson Before Dying"
with GWU English Professor Gayle Wald

Sunday, May 2nd, 5 p.m.
The Anatomy of Justice in "A Lesson Before Dying"
with GWU Professor of English and American Studies James A. Miller

We encourage you all to read the book and join these and other discussions. You can also see more of the events included in this citywide discussion by visiting the DC Public Library website. Anyone who buys A LESSON BEFORE DYING (Vintage, $13) from us will be entitled to the 20% book group discount.

Again, we want to remind you that we will be changing our website domain host this weekend April 2-3. The transition should happen very quickly, and we hope that it will happen almost imperceptibly on your end. If you send us an email, it may not arrive until Monday morning. If you see, "This site is unavailable," we assure you that this will be resolved very quickly, and you can always call the store at 202-364-1919 for information in the meantime.

 

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With spring in the air and Washington festooned with cherry blossoms and cherry blossom-tourists, we have decided a little spring cleaning of our rave review archive is in order.  We apologize if any of the reviews seem musty, but we hope the conviction in their literary passion is both contagious and clearly communicated.

For instance, here is an example of “a work of art” of the English language:

THE DEERSLAYER, by James Fennimore Cooper (Modern Library, $12.95)
Now I feel sure, deep down in my heart, that Cooper wrote about the poorest English that exists in our language, and that the English of "Deerslayer" is the very worst that even Cooper ever wrote...I may be mistaken, but it does seem to me that "Deerslayer" is not a work of art in any sense; it does seem to me that it is destitute of every detail that goes to the making of a work of art; in truth, it seems to me that "Deerslayer" is just simply a literary delirium tremens.
- Mark Twain

Of a more recent vintage is a New Yorker contributor’s energetic review of Lynn Truss’ grammar manifesto, whose prose bears comparison to “Virginia Woolf.”:

EATS, SHOOTS, AND LEAVES, by Lynn Truss (Gotham, $12)
"I am not a grammarian,” Truss says. No quarrel there. Although she has dug up information about things like the history of the colon, Truss is so uninterested in the actual rules of punctuation that she even names the ones she flouts—for example, the rule that semicolons cannot be used to set off dependent clauses. ... That is the rule, she explains, but she violates it frequently. She thinks this makes her sound like Virginia Woolf. And she admits that her editors are continually removing the commas that she tends to place before conjunctions.
- Louis Menand

We would also be remiss, if we failed to mention novelist Dale Peck’s vigorous engagement with the Rick Moody oeuvre.  Peck describes Moody’s memoir as “psychological,” “symbolic” and “striking”:

THE BLACK VEIL, by Rick Moody (Back Bay, $14.95)
Here, as in the memoir's opening paragraph — as in virtually every paragraph of this book — is patently specious psychological and symbolic amplification of a kind that I haven't seen since the last time I dipped into some of Freud's wackier case studies. ... There are any number of problems with this book, but in the end it always comes back to the prose. A writer's words, more than his narratives, characters, and themes, are the closest we have to a blueprint of his vision, and in Rick Moody's words there is a single striking consistency. You could call it an ever-widening gap between signifier and signified, or you could call it lies.
- Dale Peck

For more reviews - of J.K. Rowling, Vladimir Nabokov and others - from esteemed literary critics such as Harold Bloom and Edmund Wilson, click here.

- Michael Allen

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Wednesday, April 7, 8:15 p.m.
at the Avalon Theatre
5612 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
(Metro: Friendship Heights)
DAVID REMNICK (in conversation with MICHELE NORRIS of NPR)
THE BRIDGE: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama (Knopf, $29.95)
Using interviews and letters, David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, tells the 44th president’s life story and traces the remarkable political journey that led to the White House. Remnick's new book was previously presented in a distilled format as a magazine profile. 

Click here for two free event tickets with purchase of the book or click here for a single $10 ticket each without book purchase.

Wednesday, April 14, 7 p.m.
at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
600 I Street, NW
(Metro: Gallery Place - Chinatown)
YANN MARTEL
BEATRICE AND VIRGIL (Spiegel & Grau, $24)
Martel won the 2002 Man Booker Prize for The Life of Pi, his story of a boy and a tiger adrift at sea. His new novel, featuring a donkey, a howler monkey, and an enigmatic taxidermist, is an equally whimsical and philosophical consideration of truth and deception, responsibility and complicity.

Click here for two free author event admission tickets with purchase of the $24 book from P&P or for click here for a single $12 ticket without book purchase.

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PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL (Fork Films, $24.99)

Director Gini Reticker created this inspiring documentary about the women of Liberia who come together in silent protest outside the presidential palace to demand a peaceful resolution to their country’s ongoing civil war.  You may know this movie from the various screenings it has had in the DC area, notably its award-winning run at the 2008 Silverdocs festival in Silver Spring.  This documentary will be 15% off for members.  $5 out of every DVD sold will be donated by the filmmakers to Peace is Loud. For more information, you can go to www.praythedevilbacktohell.com.

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P&P members always save 20% on our top twelve FICTION and NON-FICTION hardcover bestsellers. To purchase these books, click the titles.

FICTION

#1: THE THINGS THEY CARRIED: 20th Annivers. Ed. by Tim O'Brien (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24)
# 2  Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson (Random House, $25)
# 3  The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Amy Einhorn, $24.95)
# 4  Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Holt, $27)
# 5  The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear (HarperCollins, $25.99)
# 6  The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25)
# 7  So Much for That by Lionel Shriver (HarperCollins, $25.99)
# 8  War Dances by Sherman Alexie (Grove Press, $23)
# 9  Known to Evil by Walter Mosley (Riverhead, $25.95) (signed editions still available!!)
# 10 The Ask by Sam Lipsyte (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25)
# 11 The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley (Delacorte, $24)
# 12 The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell (Knopf, $25.95)

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These two titles were both store favorites when they were in hardcover. Click FICTION or NON-FICTION  to browse a more complete selection of recent paperback releases.

ABOUT FACE (Penguin, $14) by Donna Leon

HUNTING EICHMANN (Mariner, $15.95)
by Neal Bascomb

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AN EXACT REPLICA OF A FIGMENT OF MY IMAGINATION: A Memoir
by Elizabeth McCracken (Back Bay, $12.99)

When you see a bereaved friend, or sit down to write a note to an acquaintance with a deadly illness, how do you offer something honest and compassionate, rather than fidgety idiocies or - even worse - the wrong thing? I am plagued by my own platitudes. So I am grateful to Elizabeth McCracken. This is not self-help, but a very particular memoir by a witty, canny novelist. Her first pregnancy, in rural France, ended tragically with a stillborn child and her second son was born a year later. Her story is just the length it ought to be: intricately structured and insightfully specific, it leads you from curiosity to compassion, rather than clobbering you with sadness. You'll cry, but then you'll know how to cry with the people around you when their stories turn sad. - Lila Stiff

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MAKING TOAST, signed by Roger Rosenblatt
(Ecco, $21.99)
First editions, not first printings.
Hardcover - February 2010

ANOTHER SCIENCE FICTION: Advertising the Space Race 1957-1962, signed by Megan Prelinger
(Blast Books, $29.95)
First editions, first printings.
Paperback (illustrated) - April 2010

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Thursday April 1

Adrienne Mayor - The Poison King
7 p.m. A finalist for the National Book Award, Mayor’s study of Mithradates brings the first century B.C. to vivid life. The leader of the ancient Black Sea kingdom of Pontus was a purported descendant of Alexander the Great, a tireless enemy of the Romans, and apparently an expert in poisons, responsible for one of the first attempted genocides in Western history.

Friday April 2

Zoe Fitzgerald Carter - Imperfect Endings
7 p.m. Exhausted from living with Parkinson’s disease, Carter’s mother enlisted her daughter to help her end her life. Carter’s memoir recounts a year of the “exit plans” she was reluctantly drawn into, including her family’s experience with the Hemlock Society and her two sisters’ different responses to their mother’s request.

Saturday April 3

Sarah Pekkanen - The Opposite of Me
1 p.m. This debut novel features fraternal twins who are nothing like each other. Alex is a stunning beauty, Lindsey a successful advertising executive. But when Lindsey loses her job and moves back home just as Alex is planning a lavish wedding, the sisters’ lifelong tensions come to a head.

Nicholas Schou - Orange Sunshine
6 p.m. This trip back to the 1960s recounts the colorful history of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, a countercultural group influenced by Timothy Leary. Based in California, the members specialized in surfing, produced their own brand of LSD, and advocated a spiritual utopianism.

Sunday April 4

EASTER SUNDAY
No events scheduled.

Monday April 5

Olga Grushin - The Line
7 p.m. The second novel by the author of The Dream Life of Sukhanov explores the need for art in a repressive society. Set in an unnamed country modeled on the Soviet Union, the narrative follows a year in the lives of people waiting daily before a closed kiosk to buy tickets for a concert by a famed émigré composer, clearly based on Stravinsky.

Tuesday April 6

Michael O'Brien - Mrs. Adams in Winter
7 p.m. From the Cambridge professor of American intellectual history, this profile of Louisa Adams, wife of John Quincy, is a rich look at the woman and her times. O’Brien focuses on Louisa’s solo journey from St. Petersburg to Paris after the Napoleonic wars.

Wednesday April 7

Christopher Moore - Bite Me
7 p.m. Continuing his Bloodsucking Fiends series, Moore’s latest love story picks up where You Suck left off. Narrated by Abby Normal, still with Foo Dog in the love lair, this latest installment of the vampiric goings-on in San Francisco is funny, suspenseful, and full of surprises.

David Remnick - The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama @ The Avalon Theatre
8:15 p.m. Using interviews and letters, David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, tells the 44th president’s life story and traces his remarkable political journey to the White House. Remnick's new book was previously presented in a distilled format as a magazine profile. 

Remnick will be in conversation with Michele Norris of NPR.  This is a ticketed event. Two admission tickets are free with book purchase from P&P or are $10 each without purchase of the book.

Thursday April 8

Roxana Saberi - Between Two Worlds
7 p.m. Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist raised in North Dakota, returned to Iran in 2003. In January 2009 she was arrested, interrogated, convicted of espionage, and given an eight-year prison sentence. After an international outcry, she was released. Her account offers an eloquent and insightful portrait of Iranian society, from the hard-line regime to Saberi's fellow prisoners.

Friday April 9

Seth Stevenson - Grounded
7 p.m. A travel columnist for Slate, Stevenson decided to see the world the old-fashioned way. Eschewing airplanes, he circumnavigated the globe by shoe leather, bicycle, rickshaw, bus, railroad, and boat. His charming travelogue evokes the pleasures of slow, ground-level meanderings, which let him savor time and distance.

Saturday April 10

Laura Skandera Trombley - Mark Twain's Other Woman
1 p.m. Isabel Van Kleek Lyon was Mark Twain’s personal assistant, social secretary, and confidante during the last years of his life. But she was distrusted by Twain’s daughters, who called her manipulative and forced their father to fire her. Trombley’s account of the Lyon-Twain relationship is the first to draw on the complete archives of Lyon’s papers.

Julian Zelizer - Arsenal of Democracy
3:30 p.m. A Princeton professor of history and public affairs, Zelizer shows that partisan fighting has always shaped American foreign policy, while national security has always been part of our domestic conflicts. Rather than a new phenomenon of the Bush/Obama years, U.S. domestic politics and foreign affairs have been intertwined for the last six decades.

Arthur Allen - Ripe
6 p.m. In his chronicle of the tomato, Allen, a former Associated Press correspondent, harvests Florida tomatoes with Mexican migrant workers, investigates the Chinese mastery of the canning tomato, and contrasts traditional Italian growing methods with American industrial means. Do we want flavor, or a product machines can slice efficiently and uniformly?

Sunday April 11

Thomas E. Kennedy - In The Company Of Angels
1 p.m. The first of Kennedy’s novels to be published in his native country after a decade of literary success in Europe, this story of trauma and healing is set in Copenhagen. Haunted by the torture he suffered in Pinochet’s Chile, Nardo cautiously approaches Michela, herself the survivor of abusive relationships.
Kennedy will be in conversation with André Dubus III, author most recently of The Garden of Last Days.

Wendy Mass - Finally
3 p.m. About to turn 12, Rory Swenson plans to get a cell phone, go to the mall with friends, wear make-up, have her ears pierced. But she doesn’t realize that responsibilities come with these new freedoms. A coming-of-age novel by a realistic fiction master.  (Ages 9-12)

Nancy Sherman - The Untold War
5  p.m. Based on interviews with soldiers engaged in the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as with veterans of earlier wars, Sherman’s study looks at combat from the inside out. A philosopher, ethicist, and psychoanalyst, she considers the moral and psychological burdens fighters bear, including how they learn to kill, how they leave killing behind, and how they distinguish civilians from combatants. 

To see the complete schedule and to purchase any of the above books, click here.

 

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Politics & Prose supplies books to the following book signing events.
Reservations and tickets should be acquired from the hosting organization.
If you can't attend a talk, but would like to purchase a signed book, call
202-364-1919 or 1-800-722-0790 or click the title links below.

Thursday, April 1, 7 p.m.

Arts Club of Washington
2017 I St, N.W.
DYLAN LANDIS
NORMAL PEOPLE DON’T LIVE LIKE THIS (Persea, $15)
& JOANNA SMITH RAKOFF
A FORTUNATE AGE (Scribner, $15)
Meet two of our brightest emerging talents in contemporary fiction. 2009 Pulitzer-Prize winner Elizabeth Strout, called Normal People Don’t Live Like This "a wonderful, intriguing and original debut." Booklist praised A Fortunate Age for its "heartbreaking clarity," later naming it one of the Top Ten Debut Novels of 2009. Readings will be followed by a Q&A, then a light reception and booksigning.For more information contact: Sandra Beasley, ACW Literary Chair at 703-994-3166 or sandrabeasley@earthlink.net.

Tuesday, April 6, 7:30 – 9 a.m.

Success in the City
Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw, Pittman LLP
2300 N St NW
LEE WOODRUFF
PERFECTLY IMPERFECT (Random House, $25)
In her acclaimed first book, In an Instant, Lee Woodruff, along with her husband, ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff, wrote eloquently and honestly about the struggles they faced together as Bob recovered from a traumatic brain injury sustained in Iraq. Now, with the same candor and clarity, Lee Woodruff chronicles her life as wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend. Her deeply personal and, at times, uproariously funny stories highlight such universal topics as family, marriage, friends, and how life never seems to go as planned. For more information and to register, visit hooksbookevents.com.

Wednesday, April 7, 7:30 p.m.

Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol Street, S.E.
PEN/Faulkner Presents
An Evening with Ian McEwan
SOLAR (Random House, $26.95)
Mr. McEwan will read from his new novel, Solar, at this special event, one of only four readings he will give in the U.S.!  A complex novel that brilliantly traces the arc of a Nobel prize-winning physicist’s ambitions and self-deceptions, Solar is a startling, witty, and stylish new work from one of the world’s great writers. $25 tickets may be purchased at www.penfaulkner.org or by calling (202) 544-7077.

Wednesday, April 7, 7:30 p.m.

Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
600 I Street, NW
Metro: Gallery Place/Chinatown
ETGAR KERET
Best-selling Israeli Writer & Filmmaker
Hailed as the voice of young Israel and one of its most radical and extraordinary writers, Keret is internationally acclaimed for his short stories, graphic novels, and writing for film and television. His books include The Girl on the Fridge (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, $12), The Nimrod Flip-Out (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, $12), and The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God (Toby Press, $12.95). As a filmmaker, he directed Jellyfish – written by his wife – which won the Camera d’Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Keret’s screenplay for Skin Deep was awarded the Israeli Oscar.

Keret will speak with Frank Foer, editor of The New Republic, about moving between literature and film, the process of translation and the differences between Israeli humor and American Jewish humor.

$10 tickets ($12 day of the event) can be purchased at www.sixthandi.org. Questions? Please call 202.408.3100.

Thursday, April 8, 7:30 p.m.

Friendship Heights Village Center
4433 S. Park Ave.
Chevy Chase, MD
STEVEN ROBERTS
FROM EVERY END OF THIS EARTH (HarperCollins, $25.99)
America is a nation of immigrants. But what does it mean to be an immigrant in America today? From Every End of This Earth follows the stories of thirteen immigrant families.
A well-known commentator on many Washington-based TV shows, Mr. Roberts also appears regularly as a political analyst on the ABC radio network and is a substitute host on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show. He and his wife, Cokie Roberts, write a nationally-syndicated newspaper column that was named one of the ten most popular columns in America by Media Matters. Since 1997 he has been the Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, where he has taught for the last 18 years. Please sign up in advance for this FREE event by calling the Village Center at 301-656-2797.

Monday, April 12, 7:30 p.m.

Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol Street, S.E.
PEN/Faulkner presents
HEIDI JULAVITS
THE USES OF ENCHANTMENT (Anchor, $13.95)
VENDELA VIDA
LET THE NORTHERN LIGHTS ERASE YOUR NAME (Harper Perennial, $13.95)
Founding co-editors of The Believer magazine, published by McSweeney’s, read from their latest works of fiction.  Heidi Julavits has also written The Effect of Living Backwards.  Vendela Vida is also the author of And Now You Can Go, Girls on the Verge, and the forthcoming The Lovers, and co-wrote the screenplay for the 2009 film Away We Go with husband Dave Eggers. More information and $15 tickets are available online or by phone, 202-544-7077.

Friday, April 16 - Saturday, April 24

(6 performances)
at Source Theater
1835 14th St. NW
The In Series presents
SEARCHING FOR GABRIELA
SELECTED POEMS OF GABRIELA MISTRAL (Univ. of New Mexico, $34.95)
Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral was the first Latin-American to win the Nobel Prize, and yet her magnificent work is not well known. Director Abel Lopez leads a spellbinding bilingual journey through her poetry on stage, clothed in passionate words, movement and music. The original English storyline is by D.C. writer Sybil R. Williams.

Information and tickets ($34-16) are available through http://www.inseries.org or by calling the Box Office at 202-204-7763.

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CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK
(20% off through 04/07/2010)
It’s Spring! It’s time to frolic and play in the mud and the dust.  It’s BUNNY DAYS (Dial, $16.99).  Author/illustrator Tao Nyeu combines a pastel palette, bold lines, and a very off-beat sense of humor in three little adventures of a bevy of bunnies, Bear, and Mr. and Mrs. Goat.  In their first adventure, the bunnies get very muddy.  Luckily, Bear has a washing machine right there in the middle of the field to swish swash them clean!  In another story, Mrs. Goat is doing her chores vacuuming the grass when she has a little mishap. The inside of the dust jacket doubles as a poster for a daily reminder of these gentle, silly stories and the book’s beautiful illustrations.   Ages 2-6   -Dara La Porte

Read about - and buy - more of our favorite books for children by clicking here.

 

Lisa Chaplin-Hobbs hosts story time for young children every Monday morning at 10:30 a.m.

For upcoming events and more from the Children and Teens' Department, click here.

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NEW
LA PASIÓN SEGÚN SAN MARCOS (DG, 2 CDs plus DVD, $39.98) – Osvaldo Golijov composed his 90-minute St. Mark Passion, is a huge, powerful, and swinging work for vocal soloists, choir, orchestra, and a hot Cuban/Brazilian band featuring many percussionists and a brass section. Golijov’s is a distinct Latin view of the Passion story, with percussion and voices spreading the word, and driving the story. The work also includes dance sequences, and this new recording also includes a DVD of the full production, filmed at the Holland Festival, in 2008. Highly recommended.

Amir ElSaffar & Hafez Modirzadeh, RADIF SUITE (Pi Recordings, $15.98) – One of my favorite CDs from 2007 was trumpeter Amir ElSaffar’s Two Rivers, on which he combined Iraqui maqam forms and jazz. His new one ups the ante, as he teams with saxophonist Hafez Modirzadeh, who combines Persian modal forms and jazz. They are supported by a dynamite rhythm section: Mark Dresser, bass, and Alex Cline, drums. As the New York Times noted, the sound reminds you of the classic Ornette Coleman quartet with Don Cherry on the frontline.

Kronos Quartet with Alim & Fargana Qasimov and Homayun Sakhi, RAINBOW (Smithsonian Folkways, CD & DVD, $18.98) – Volume 8 from Folkways’s Music of Central Asia series is comprised of two collaborations. The Kronos Quartet backs the fantastic Azerbaijani traditional singers, Alim and Fargana Qasimov, and a long suite for rubab (the Afghani short-necked lute), percussion, and string quartet. Also released this week is Vol. 7: IN THE SHRINE OF THE HEART: Popular Classics from Bukhara and Beyond, and Vol. 9: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BABUR: Musical Encounters from the Lands of the Mughals (both Smithsonian Folkways, CD & DVD, $18.98). Each of the volumes contains over 60 minutes of music, a ery informative twenty-page color booklet, and a 24-minute DVD.

Thomas Adès: TEVOT & VIOLIN CONCERTO (EMI, $16.98) – Thomas Adès is a formidable British composer (as well as a conductor, and pianist – he just soloed at Carnegie Hall). His newest CD includes three world premiers: Tevot, played by the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Simon Rattle; Violin Concerto “Concentric Paths,” played by Anthony Marwood, and conducted by Adès; Three Studies after Couperin; and Powder Her Face (Suite).

SIGNED GERALD FINLEY CDs & NPR STORY
On Tuesday’s All Things Considered, there was a heartfelt story about the world premier of Peter Lieberson’s new song cycle, “Songs of Love and Sorrow,” sung by baritone Gerald Finley with the Boston Symphony  Orchestra, set to Neruda poems (story here). Mr. Finley stopped by Politics and Prose after his DC recital two weeks ago, and generously signed CDs of his Schumann, Ravel, Ives, and Barber programs. Also available is a new CD, OPERATIC ARIAS (Chandos, $14.99), including works by Bizet, Wagner, Puccini, Verdi, and John Adams. This release is part of Chandos’s “Opera in English” series.

Click here for more reviews and news. Please call us at 202-364-1919 to order these CDs.