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Departing Spokane Symphony conductor Eckart Preu leaves an exceptional legacy
Mon, May 6, 2019 ReviewsHad this weekend’s concerts by the Spokane Symphony been planned as an audition by Eckart Preu for the position of principal conductor and music director of the orchestra, they could not have been more successful. We had already heard f
Read ArticleOgren inspires as final candidate for Spokane Symphony music director
Mon, Apr 15, 2019 ReviewsThe fifth shoe dropped on Saturday night, when Jayce Ogren, the last of five candidates we were to hear for the position of music director of the Spokane Symphony, led the orchestra in its penultimate classics concert of the 2018-19 seas
Read ArticleConcert review: Talent on display, choice for symphony director tougher than ever
Mon, Mar 25, 2019 ReviewsThere may have been some in the audience of this weekend’s concerts by the Spokane Symphony who harbored a secret wish that the concerts had not gone so well as they did. This perverse wish arose from the fact that the orchestra was aud
Read ArticleConcert review: Conductor Rei Hotoda rises to demanding program
Mon, Mar 11, 2019 ReviewsEven under ordinary circumstances, the seventh Classics concert of the season by the Spokane Symphony would have attracted special attention by virtue of its program. The first half paired a brief work by one of America’s most honored li
Read ArticleSpokane Symphony rocks out at the Fox for music of Queen
Sat, Jan 26, 2019 ReviewsThe show may have been at the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, and members of the Spokane Symphony may have been on stage, but what transpired on Friday night was not an orchestral event. It was a rock concert. A rock concert dedicate
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