ATLANTA — André 3000 floats to the tune of his own key. Quite literally. A week after Outkast was announced as Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, the Atlanta rapper, flutist and now pianist has yet to address the honor publicly. Instead, on Monday night, he dropped new music — moments before appearing on the Met Gala red carpet. “7 Piano Sketches,” his surprise EP, is seven tracks of solo ...
The Spokane Symphony is looking to make their 80th season a historic one, reaching new heights while fully embracing the longstanding culture and community of the city.
Emotion filled the auditorium at Eastern Washington University as soprano Jaqueline Itzel Medina Green rehearsed “El Pastor,” a soulful Mexican ballad from the 1960s, in preparation for this weekend’s Cinco de Mayo celebration.
After missing the cut in its first two nominations, Soundgarden is going into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as part of a 2025 class that includes hip-hop innovators Outkast, Cyndi Lauper, the White Stripes, ‘70s rockers Bad Company, Joe Cocker and Chubby Checker.
With Music Director James Lowe as their guide, audiences at Spokane Sympony masterworks concerts have been led through every psychological state one can imagine: anxiety, exultation, rage, delight, fear, depression and triumph. The vehicles for reaching these varied destinations have been, for the most part (Mozart is an exception to this, as to all other generalizations), pieces of music composed after 1800; that is to say, works of the Romantic period and later. This season’s eighth masterworks concert Saturday and Sunday at the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox was devoted to a single work – Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation” (1797) – and presented us with something remarkably, and wonderfully, different.
Brennen Leigh was the first to play the Hamilton Studio Listening Room last year, and now the old-school country artist is back as a part of the troubadour trio, Wonder Women of Country.
Depicting the creation of the universe as told through Biblical genesis is a tall task, but the Spokane Symphony (and chorale) look to do just that through music during this weekend’s “Masterworks 8: Let There Be Light!”
To kick off the spring season of the Northwest BachFest, Artistic Director Zuill Bailey brought the Balourdet String Quartet to Barrister Winery for two inspirational concerts.
On March 18, 2012, Zuill Bailey gave a recital at Spokane’s St. John’s Cathedral of the first three Suites for Solo Cello by J.S. Bach. Many in the audience realized that we were present at something out of the ordinary. To be sure, the playing was very good – wonderful, really – but there was more than that: Bailey was playing quite deliberately for us, determined that we feel the majesty, sweetness and sorrow in that music as powerfully and completely as he did. By the time he finished playing, some of us in the audience had been changed for good, and left the church determined to be more open and honest in our approach to music, and certainly determined to hear more of Bailey.
As esteemed flugelhornist Dmitri Matheny puts it, “Jazz and film grew up together,” and he’ll be taking the audience on a deep dive into the classic music of cinema alongside David Larsen’s stellar jazz band lineup.
The prestigious Northwest BachFest returns for another set of shows this weekend, and this round of the ongoing series will feature a relatively young but extremely impressive string quartet.
