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Bob Weir, a founding member of the Grateful Dead, has released a 2-CD career retrospective, Weir Here. The guitarist performs two songs and reflects on music and career with NPR's Scott Simon.

Singer-songwriter-author Laura Love has sold more than 200,000 records and now she's touring to promote both her new CD and a memoir of the same name — You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes.

Regarded as one of California's premier rock bands, Los Lobos celebrates 30 years together with a new album called The Ride. Music Critic Jesse "Chuy" Varela talks to the wolves from East Los Angeles.

NPR's Fred Child welcomes the Aspen Ensemble to the stage at the Aspen Music Festival. Members of the ensemble discuss how they work together and then perform Flute Trio by Bohuslav Martinu, H. 300.

Film composer Elmer Bernstein, who died recently at 82, was perhaps best known for his rousing score to The Magnificent Seven. But he had 200 films and 14 Oscar nominations to his credit. Hear Weekend Edition film music commentator Andy Trudeau and NPR's Liane Hansen.

NPR's Fred Child takes the stage with the young Jupiter Quartet: violinists Meg Freivogel and Nelson Lee, Liz Freivogel (Meg's sister) on viola and Daniel McDonough on cello. They discuss and perform music by Joseph Haydn and Felix Mendelssohn.

Music critic Christian Bordal reviews the latest offering from London-based DJ State of Bengal and singer Paban Das Baul. The CD Tana Tani fuses traditional Hindi singing with and modern electronica stylings.

NPR's Fred Child is in Aspen, on stage with the Shaham family. Pianist Orli Shaham is joined by her brother, violinist Gil Shaham, and Gil's wife, violinist Adele Anthony.

Over the next week, NPR's Performance Today will broadcast selections from Lincoln Center's 2004 Mostly Mozart Festival, including the opening night gala featuring mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená, pianist Yefim Bronfman and conductor Louis Langree.

English teacher Bobby Texel remembers his coworker Dennis DeCarlo, a woodshop teacher at Pompton Lakes High School in New Jersey. Dennis and Bobby worked together for years on the school's musicals.