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Secretary of State Colin Powell prepares to share U.S. intelligence with the U.N. Security Council, in hopes of persuading members that Iraq is in defiance of U.N. weapons resolutions. Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Tony Blair urges European nations to support the U.S. position. NPR's Vicky O'Hara and NPR's Guy Raz report.

Parnassus Avenue Baroque in Studio 4A: We welcome a newly formed ensemble called Parnassus Avenue Baroque into the PT studios. They play Corelli's Sonata Op.l 5, No. 1, followed by a Sonata for Two Recorders by Sammartini, and Diogenio Bigaglia's Sonata in A minor. The performers are Dan Laurin, Hanneke Proosdij (PROOZ-jee), David Tayler and Tanya Tomkins. Fred Child also speaks with the ensemble about their music, and what it's like to play in a group where some members live in California and one lives in Sweden.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill has resigned, and will leave office within weeks. O'Neill has been a chief adviser to President Bush on the flagging economy. Senior White House economic adviser Larry Lindsey is also expected to give up his post. NPR News reports.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill has resigned, and will leave office within weeks. O'Neill has been a chief adviser to President Bush on the flagging economy. Senior White House economic adviser Larry Lindsey is also expected to give up his post. NPR News reports.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill has resigned, and will leave office within weeks. O'Neill has been a chief adviser to President Bush on the flagging economy. Senior White House economic adviser Larry Lindsey is also expected to give up his post. Hear more from NPR's Bob Edwards and NPR's John Ydstie.

>From one of the CDs Ted Libbey will recommend for the PT Basic Record Library later in the hour, we'll hear music for strings by Thomas Tallis: "Absterge Domine" (ahb-STAIR-jay DOH-mee-nay--"Wipe away, O God"). David Douglass conducts The King's Noyse. (Harmonia Mundi HMU 907154)

Ballet on 88 Keys: Pianist Christopher O'Riley plays his own arrangement of a Stravinsky ballet in Alabama. We'll hear his transcription of "Apollon Musagete" (ah-poh-loh(n) moo-zah-ZHET) in concert last month at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. (NPR/WUAL)

Guitarist Paul O'Dette perform a Chaconne (shah-KOHN) by Francesco Corbetta (frahn-CHESS-koh kor-BEH-tah). It's from a C-D of 17th-century Italian music on the Harmonia Mundi (har-MOH-nee-uh MOON-dee) label. (Harmonia Mundi HMU 907246)

Romance From France: Flutist Ransom Wilson plays a set of Romantic French transcriptions in concert at the O-K Mozart Festival in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. He joins conductor JoAnn Falletta and members of the Solisti (soh-LEE-stee) New York Orchestra for "Souvenir of a Dance," by Charles Gounod (SHARL goo-NOH), the "Berceuse" (bair-S(OO)Z) by Gabriel Faure (foh-RAY). Also, Maurice Ravel's "Piece in the Form of a Habanera" (hah-bahn-YAIR-rah), and the "Meditation" by Jules Massenet (zhool mah-sen-NAY). (KWGS, Tulsa, OK)

Magic Toots: Two selections from "The Magic Flute," by Mozart. We'll hear "I Am the Jolly Bird-catcher", and "O Loveliness Beyond Compare." It's played by the six wind players of the group called Nachtmusique (NAHCHT-moo-zeek). (GCD 2K0601)