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Liane Hansen speaks with composer John Morton, whose new CD, Outlier features new music for music boxes (on Innova Recordings, available at www.innovarecordings.com). Morton has modified the mechanisms and run the sound through electronic processing, and works with other musicians who play traditional instruments on the CD. John Morton demonstrates his boxes for us in NPR's Studio 4A.

Host Lynn Neary talks with Tuck & Patti, the husband-and-wife jazz duo from the Bay Area, who have been performing for more than two decades. They do some tunes in Studio 4A at NPR in Washington, D.C. Tuck & Patti's new CD is called Chocolate Moment, released on their own label T & P Records. (For more information, please visit http://www.tuckandpatti.com.)

Scott talks with T Bone Burnett, soundtrack producer for the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? This week Mr. Burnett released a new CD called Down From The Mountain on Lost Highway Records (www.losthighway.com). It's a collection of songs from the O Brother sound track recorded last year at the Ryman Auditorium in Nasvhille.

On the eve of the annual Grammy presentations, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences seeks to recover from the departure of a scandal-plagued president. And the music industry confronts a steep decline in CD sales. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and Eric Boehlert of Salon.com.

Noah talks with Jim Espy about his company that supplies Christmas decorations to offices, malls and other public spaces. This season, he sent a forty foot wreath to someone as well as 70-foot Christmas trees. Espy's company is called James Trogolo (tro-GO-lo) and is based in Christopher, Illinois. http://www.trogolo.com.

Kathy McAnally reports after his movie musical, Moulin Rouge, director Baz Luhrman is turning his attention back to the stage. His version of the Puccini opera "La Boheme" opens next week on Broadway in New York. It's already had success in San Francisco. See http://www.bohemeonbroadway.com/indexdsl.html.

Film Festivals abound in Park City, Utah this week, home of the Sundance Festival and its upstart rival Slamdance, as well as several others. Frank Stasio talks with Peter Baxter, Slamdance executive director and co-founder, about his alterna-festival's roots and commitment to independent film. (NOTE: for more info, please visit the Slamdance website: http://www.slamdance.com/2001/ (6:00).

The time of "irrational exuberance" on Wall Street is clearly over. Dot-coms have not fared well, but the more traditional blue chip stocks have also suffered. Two egregious examples are AT&T. and Xerox. Scott speaks with Fortune magazine's editor-at-large Joe Nocera about the tough times for these giants of industry.

NPR's Larry Abramson reports on the expansion of Internet addresses. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has chosen the new addresses, which will come after the "dot." The new names include: dot-biz; dot-name; dot-info; dot-museum; dot-coop; dot-aero; and dot-pro. Existing suffixes include dot-com, dot-org, and dot-net.

A federal judge approves a partial settlement between WorldCom and the SEC in which the company accepts allegations of fraud and agrees to close monitoring of its corporate governance and its accounting controls. The judge defers a decision on penalties. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.