MUSIC

‘Wars’ in the Stores: Holiday shoppers looking for an album of music from PBS’ “The Civil War” series may have more to choose from than they bargained for. There’s the official soundtrack (Elektra/Nonesuch), which includes Jay Ungar’s popular “Ashokan Farewell,” plus string band music, brass marches and songs and gospel tunes from the period. And riding on the heels of the popular series is a two-CD reissue from the 1960s, “The Civil War: Its Music and Its Sounds,” (Mercury Living Presence) by Frederick Fennell and the Eastman Wind Ensemble, from which PBS lifted a few selections for the series. Tower Records in West Hollywood reports that the Elektra/Nonesuch album is outselling the Mercury by a two-to-one margin.