November 23, 2000 - MPR’s Tom Crann interviews Irish virtuoso flute player James Galway. The two discuss conductor Herbert von Karajan, religious aspects of Mozart compositions, challenges as a conductor, and Galway’s personal success.
November 24, 2000 - The diversity of Jewish families within Minneapolis.
November 24, 2000 - Holiday's are a time for families to gather together to share memories and stories. Minnesota author Richard Jorgensen's new book, "Reading with Dad," taps into that experience. The story follows a father and daughter who share their love of reading throughout their lives. Richard Jorgensen is a Lutheran pastor in Faribault. He told Minnesota Public Radio's Greta Cunningham he wanted his book to show the power fathers and literature have in a young child's life.
November 24, 2000 - "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe" is performing at the Minnesota Children's Theater.
November 24, 2000 - Ali Salim, a screenplay writer, made it big in Hollywood. He already did commercials, one independent film, and had small roles on movies, like "Shawshank Redemption." His movie is called "So Many Dreams."
November 24, 2000 - IT'S BECOME AS TRADITIONAL AS TURKEY FOR FANS OF GUITAR MUSIC IN THE TWIN CITIES. LEO KOTTKE IS PLAYING HIS 16TH ANNUAL HOLIDAY CONCERT AT THE ORDWAY IN ST. PAUL SUNDAY NIGHT. KOTTKE IS A WORLD RENOWNED FINGER STYLE GUITARIST WHO MAKES HIS HOME IN THE TWIN CITIES. I ASKED HIM HOW THE HOME TOWN HOLIDAY CONCERT BECAME A TRADITION:
November 24, 2000 - Nearly 100,000 people are expected in downtown St. Paul for the three day Hmong New Year, two Minnesota Wild games, and other events. The majority of the participants will converge on the city's RiverCentre to celebrate the Hmong New Year. MPR’s Tom Scheck provides a glimpse into the celebration.
November 27, 2000 - If you're a football fan, you're not alone. Minnesota is full of enthusiastic spectators of the game from the high school leagues on up. Ross Bernstein's new book "Pigskin Pride: Celebrating a Century of Minnesota Football" documents I asked him how Minnesota stacks up against other football loving states: Ross Bernstein called to give the details about his upcoming book signings: Saturday from 11-4pm at Southdale B Dalton and Sunday from 1-5pm at Burnsville B-Dalton. Saturday from 6-8 at Maplewood B-Dalton.
November 28, 2000 - Every story in Frederick Busch's new collection of short fiction"Don't Tell Anyone" is about secrets. There are different kinds: people hiding a troubled past, or a current problem, some denying reality, and others simply ignorant of what the rest of the world seems to know. Busch says he did not set out to write about secrets, its just the way his fiction has developed in recent years. He told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr secrets are stories in themselves, but he doesn't really know from where his stories come. Frederick Busch's collection of stories "Don't Tell Anyone" is published by Norton. If you would like to hear an extended interview with Frederick Busch, and read more about his work, please visit the bookpage at Minnesotapublicradio-dot-org. You'll also be able to find past book interviews from MPR programs.
November 29, 2000 - Margaret Atwood's latest novel "The Blind Assassin" focuses on an octegenarian looking back on the events leading to the death of her younger sister. But the book-- which recently won Britain's prestigious Booker prize- also contains a novel-within-the-novel and yet another science fiction tale within THAT. One of the Booker judges said the novel "demonstrates Atwood's immense emotional range, as well as her poet's eye for both telling detail and psychological truth." Atwood told Minnesota Public Radio's Stephanie Curtis many of the moments in the novel came from the experiences of her mother and grandmother.