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.
Come Wednesday, the University of Idaho’s campus will be briefly overrun by thousands of elementary, middle and high school students bouncing from place to place, most with an instrument in hand.
This year’s local display of all things DIY and alt-rock, Spring Reverb Bash, will bring a Spokane-born musician back to the Lilac City with his Seattle band.
Two sets of the area’s most recognizable local musicians have joined forces to create a versatile rock powerhouse in the form of Psily (P.S. I Love You).
On the first of next month, it will be 17 years since the world-renowned French pianist Pascal Rogé joined the Spokane Symphony to open their 63rd season with a performance of Gershwin’s Concerto in F. There must have been something about Spokane that appealed to Rogé, an artist welcome at all of the world’s greatest musical venues, producing a steady stream of acclaimed recordings bearing the label of one of the world’s foremost classical recording companies, for he has returned twice to our city since then, and will be here yet again this week. In 2018 and again in 2023, he appeared with professor Kevin Hekmatpanah and the Gonzaga Orchestra in performances of concertos by Charles Camille Saint-Saens and Maurice Ravel.
