The independent record store, which has moved around the Lake City three times and outlasted former industry giants such as Borders, Sam Goody and Hastings, plans to close July 3 after 53 years in business, 41 of them in Coeur d'Alene.
The generous residency in Spokane by the piano duo of Pascal Rogé and Elena Font concluded with a performance on Monday evening at the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center in which they were joined by the Gonzaga Symphony conducted by Professor Kevin Hekmatpanah. On the weekend of April 18 and 19, they presented first a program of music, both for two hands and four hands by French and Spanish composers, and then a demanding program of music for cello and piano in which Hekmatpanah joined them at the cello.
As we approach the end of the 2025-26 season of the Spokane Symphony, the orchestra’s conductor and music director, James Lowe, has decided to go to his big guns and offer one of the most thrilling and impressive works in the symphonic repertoire: Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem, or, to give its full title, “Messa da Requiem,” composed in memory of Alessandro Manzoni in 1873.
Update: The LeAnn Rimes concert has been rescheduled for May 31. All previously purchased tickets will be honored for the new date, and no action is necessary, an email from the Fox read on Tuesday. Those wanting a refund can contact the Fox by May 28.
MINNEAPOLIS — In his 2020 tune “My Own Version of You,” Bob Dylan sang, “To hell with all the things that I used to be.” Now, his fellow Upper Midwest songwriter Justin Vernon is making a similar statement as he channels his own version of Bob Dylan.
The reputation of some distinct pieces of music precedes them. The kind that sends shivers down spines and evokes goosebumps, no matter how many centuries seem to pass . Giuseppe Verdi’s “Requiem” is one of those pieces.
Between yet another run of shows with West Coast legend E-40 and a return to the Knitting Factory stage he has known so well, Tech N9ne’s two-night Spokane residency looks to be a true homecoming.
Pascal Rogé, internationally recognized for over 50 years as one of the world’s most engaging and illuminating pianists, arrived in Spokane last week for an extended stay. Violating the expectation honored by most touring musicians – arrive on Friday night for a rehearsal on Saturday morning, a performance that evening, and a departure early Sunday morning –Rogé, accompanied by his wife and duet partner, Elena Font, will be here for nearly two weeks. This will allow sufficient time for a radio interview, a master class and three public performances, the first two of which took place this past weekend in the recital hall of the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center on the Gonzaga campus. Another opportunity to see and hear Rogé will come at 7:30 pm April 27, in the Fr. Bernard J. Coughlin, S.J. Theater at the Woldson Center, when he and Elena Font will join the Gonzaga Orchestra and their conductor, professor Kevin Hekmatpanah in a performance of Francis Poulenc’s Concerto for two pianos.
Don Schlitz, a prodigious songwriter whose credits include Kenny Rogers’ “The Gambler,” Randy Travis’ “On the Other Hand” and many other chart-topping country hits, most of them from the 1980s and ’90s, died Thursday at a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 73.
