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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)

Christmas Around the Country, Part Two: From New York, we'll hear the Tallis Scholars, performing the old German carol "In Dulci Jubilo" at St. Ignatius Loyola Church. Then we head off to hear Apollo's Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, conducted by Jeanette Sorrel in a performance of the opening chorale, "Sleepers Awake," from Johann Sebastian Bach's beautiful Cantata No. 140. We move on to Atlanta to hear the women of the Spelman College Glee Club sing "Mary, Did You Know" from the school's annual Christmas concert with the Morehouse College Glee Club. After that we travel to historic St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland as the women of Ensemble Galilei (gal-il-LAY) and guest Uilleann pipe and woodern-flute player Kieran O'Hare play the ancient Bressay Lullaby, or "Balloo Lammy," and the soulful Irish carol "Don Oiche" (EE-hah). Then an old Basque carol, "Gabriel's Message," arranged by John Rutter, is sung by the San Francisco Girls Choir. And at our final stop we'll hear "Lo, how a rose, e'er blooming," performed in New York City by the Tallis Scholars.

Renaissance Christmas: The Canticle A Cappella Choir devoted part of its Christmas concert this month at Our Lady of Sorrow Church in Santa Barbara, California to music of the 16th-century Italian composer Palestrina. From that concert, we'll hear the "O Magnum Mysterium" (oh MAHN-yoom mis-TEH-ree-oom. We'll also hear two 19th-century carols -- "Thy Little Ones, Dear Lord Are We" by Johann A. P. Schultz, in an arrangement by Phyllis Zimmerman. Our mini-concert concludes with two 16th-century carols ... "Sing Tiny Infant Child" by Michael Praetorius and "This Day is Born Emanuel" by John Gerrish. (Opus One Mobile Recordings)