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The original Broadway cast recording of Bernstein's West Side Story was made only three days after the show opened. More than 50 years later, the performers' fresh vitality still shines through.

If there are ghosts in the music, Ran Blake finds them and stretches their abstract melodies into an unknown ether. The 74-year-old pianist crosses streams of music, film and life in what he calls "recompositions," which amount to long strands of improvisation from multiple, original compositions. In his only concert of 2009, a small audience witnessed his recompositions unfold.

The Alt.Latino crew stops by Weekend Edition Sunday to talk about one of Latin music's most pervasive rhythms.

A 22-year-old man who was legally carrying a firearm at the mall shot and killed the gunman, police say. A gunman began firing at the Greenwood Park Mall shortly before it closed on Sunday.

A strong earthquake set off landslides and damaged buildings in the northern Philippines in Wednesday. In the capital, hospital patients were evacuated and terrified people rushed outdoors.

This year, voters in a record number of states will weigh in on ballot measures related to abortion, with some proposals advanced by abortion-rights supporters and others advanced by opponents.

Police are investigating two weekend shootings in the Indianapolis, Ind., metro area.

R.L. Stine's mega-popular series has spawned TV shows, movies and many, many books. A humor writer who stumbled into horror, Stine says its been a thrill to scare so many generations of kids.

The biggest swarm of locusts in decades has chomped its way around a swath of the Middle East, South Asia and Africa — and is now devouring crops in Kenya.

As schools across the U.S. are targeted by false calls about active shooters, NPR has found evidence that a similar scheme took place in the spring.