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For 2014-15 season, symphony ready to run the gamut

From John Adams to Frank Zappa. A to Z. With Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, Bernstein, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Villa-Lobos and many others in between. Spokane Symphony Orchestra conductor and artistic director Eckart Preu will begin his 11th season this fall by once again giving Spokane audiences classic works by the grand masters, eclectic pieces by avant garde composers and talented guest artists to share in their creation.
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Pianist’s style melds Bach, Brubeck

Two years ago, pianist Lara Downes performed a program titled “13 Ways of Looking at the Goldberg” in Spokane for the Northwest Bach Festival. This year, she’s back, and one of the two programs she’s performing this weekend is the result of her work on J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations and a related CD she recorded.
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Pianist’s style melds Bach, Brubeck

Two years ago, pianist Lara Downes performed a program titled “13 Ways of Looking at the Goldberg” in Spokane for the Northwest Bach Festival. This year, she’s back, and one of the two programs she’s performing this weekend is the result of her work on J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations and a related CD she recorded.
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Oscar parties tonight at Bing, Northern Quest

The Academy Awards are today, and if you aren’t up for hanging out at home and watching the festivities, there are at least two watch parties planned. One features a real-life Oscar winner and will benefit Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre; the other is the grand dame of Spokane Oscar parties, entering its 16th year.
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Violinist Pine masters classical to metal

Rachel Barton Pine knows the caprices. Composer and musician Niccolo Paganini wrote the 24 short works between 1802 and 1817 to demonstrate all the cool things one could do with a violin. To perform them all requires tremendous skill, and mastery of every trick in the violinist’s toolbox.
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‘Les Mis’ stage hits right notes

Last Friday, five young actors from Spokane Civic Theatre walked onto the stage at the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox. As they took in the space before them – the gorgeous art deco ceiling, the 1,600 seats – their eyes got wide. Smiles broke out across their faces. One young woman wept tears of joy. The reason for the visit? A quick look at the venue where they’ll be reviving Civic’s production of the epic musical “Les Misérables,” in tandem with the Spokane Symphony Orchestra. The two-show revival this weekend is a fundraiser for Civic, the symphony and the Fox.
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Violinist Pine masters classical to metal

Rachel Barton Pine knows the caprices. Composer and musician Niccolo Paganini wrote the 24 short works between 1802 and 1817 to demonstrate all the cool things one could do with a violin. To perform them all requires tremendous skill, and mastery of every trick in the violinist’s toolbox.
A&E >  Entertainment

‘Les Mis’ stage hits right notes

Last Friday, five young actors from Spokane Civic Theatre walked onto the stage at the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox. As they took in the space before them – the gorgeous art deco ceiling, the 1,600 seats – their eyes got wide. Smiles broke out across their faces. One young woman wept tears of joy. The reason for the visit? A quick look at the venue where they’ll be reviving Civic’s production of the epic musical “Les Misérables,” in tandem with the Spokane Symphony Orchestra. The two-show revival this weekend is a fundraiser for Civic, the symphony and the Fox.
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Book Notes: Linda Hogan next up in GU Writers Series

Linda Hogan, the Chickasaw poet, novelist, storyteller and playwright, is coming to Spokane this week as part of the Gonzaga University Visiting Writers Series. Hogan will speak at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Cataldo Hall Globe Room on the GU campus. She’ll also be at Spokane Falls Community College on Wednesday.
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Bach festival spreads its wings

The Northwest Bach Festival is in expansion mode. This year, under the guidance of new artistic director Zuill Bailey, the festival is growing up and out, from four or five performances a year, all in the majestic St. John’s Cathedral, to nearly a dozen musical events, plus receptions and films, spread in venues around town.
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Bach festival spreads its wings

The Northwest Bach Festival is in expansion mode. This year, under the guidance of new artistic director Zuill Bailey, the festival is growing up and out, from four or five performances a year, all in the majestic St. John’s Cathedral, to nearly a dozen musical events, plus receptions and films, spread in venues around town.
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Book Notes: Get Lit! prepares wide-ranging programs

Get Lit! 2014 is beginning to take shape. Spokane’s annual literary festival, sponsored by Eastern Washington University, will be at various locations April 7-13. It will, as in past years, include workshops, readings and poetry slams.
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Spotlight: Bailey moves to expand reach of Bach Festival

The Northwest Bach Festival is fast approaching, and taking new shape under new artistic director Zuill Bailey. Bailey, a renowned concert cellist who also is artistic director of both the El Paso Pro Musica festival in Texas and the Sitka Music Festival in Alaska, is taking the festival beyond the walls of the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist.
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Book Notes: Auntie’s to host Jess Walter event

Auntie’s Bookstore will host a ceremony next week to present Jess Walter with a PNBA Book Award. Walter won the award, sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, for his 2013 short-story collection, “We Live in Water.” It’s Walter’s second PNBA Book Award – he won in 2007 for “The Zero.”
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Spotlight: Gonzaga lecture series lands laureate Goldsmith

Kenneth Goldsmith has read poetry at the White House and jousted with Stephen Colbert. He’s the first-ever poet laureate of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and has presented poetry at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He’s written books and developed UbuWeb, a online archive dedicated to digital presentations of avant-garde and outsider art. Now, he can add “visited Spokane” to his list of credentials.
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She’ll have you at ‘Hello’

There are roles in the Broadway canon that will always be associated with the actors who originated them. Think Ethel Merman in “Gypsy,” Rosalind Russell in “Auntie Mame” or Carol Channing in “Hello, Dolly!” It can seem daunting stepping into these iconic roles. But for Emmy-winning actress Sally Struthers, playing a role like Dolly Levi is a dream.
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Party promises eclectic mix

Nicole Lewis has played Elkfest and Art on the Green, Pig Out in the Park and the Harvest Festival at Green Bluff. She’s shared the stage frequently with the Spokane Jazz Orchestra and performed with Ben Folds and Regis Philbin. She recorded her first record, “My Kind of Paradise,” in Nashville, Tenn., and released it a month ago. Now, she and her band will be entertaining the crowd during cocktail hour Friday at Symphony With a Splash at the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox.
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Rustics’ harmonies grounded in folk

Ryan Miller and Mackie Hockett first met as children. They started making music together a couple of years ago, and now they’re about to release their first EP, “Be Here Now.” Miller and Hockett are the creative force behind the indie folk band the Rustics. This Spokane duo-turned-six-piece has played Elkfest and Gleasonfest, and taken the stage at clubs such as nYne and Mootsy’s. They’ll celebrate the six-song EP “Be Here Now” with a show Saturday the Bing Crosby Theater.
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Local writers Walter, Wrigley win PNBA awards

Jess Walter and Robert Wrigley are winners in this year’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Awards. Walter, a Spokane native, won for his first collection of short stories, “We Live in Water,” which was published in 2013 by Harper Perennial. Walter was a National Book Award finalist in 2006 for his novel “The Zero.” His latest novel, 2012’s “Beautiful Ruins,” was a New York Times best seller.
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Wolski, Jess combine for ‘Baroque Duet’

Next weekend, the Spokane String Quartet will be welcoming a soprano, a harpsichordist and a trumpet player into the fold. “Baroque Duet” is the theme of the concert, set for 3 p.m. Jan. 19 at the Bing Crosby Theater.
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Ansel Adams’ war-inspired Manzanar photographs land at Jundt

By 1942, Ansel Adams has established a successful career as a commercial and landscape photographer. He’d traipsed about the American West, capturing in glorious black and white the now-famous images “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico,” “Monolith, the Face of Half Dome,” and “Taos Pueblo.” That same year, more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans who lived on the West Coast were forced from their homes and businesses and sent to live in one of 10 relocation centers scattered from Southern Idaho to California and east to Arkansas.