By  Emma Epperly The Spokesman-Review May 5, 2024 As stormtroopers, Chewbacca and Darth Vader entertained the crowd in the lobby of the Fox Theater half an hour past starting time for the Spokane Symphony’s “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back” show Saturday evening, Music Director James Lowe was backstage opening the score ...

By Azaria Podplesky The Inlander May 2, 2024 At the end of the Spokane Symphony's current 78th season, three musicians will put away their music stands for the final time, taking a combined 142 years of symphony percussion experience with them. Paul Raymond, Bryan Bogue and Rick Westrick joined the symphony in ...

By Larry Lapidus The Spokesman-Review March 10, 2024 In his remarks to the audience prior to Saturday night’s concert of the Spokane Symphony, James Ross, who, at the invitation of Music Director James Lowe, had flown in from Alexandria, Virginia, to serve as guest conductor, observed that the composer Jean Sibelius was ...

By Larry Lapidus The Spokesman-Review January 21, 2024 Having traveled the world making music, studying with acknowledged masters and performing in starry venues with noted ensembles, two young musicians took the stage of the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox in the fifth of this season’s Masterworks concerts by the Spokane Symphony. ...

By Nick Gibson The Spokesman-Review January 24, 2024 Leonard Byrne, who served as the Spokane Symphony Orchestra’s principal and only tubist for nearly five decades, died Monday of congestive heart failure in Spokane Valley. He was 70. Byrne joined the symphony in 1975 while finishing his master’s degree in electrical engineering at ...

By Larry Lapidus The Spokesman-Review November 5, 2023 Hardly had the echoes of Morihiko Nakahara’s rendition of Amy Beach’s mighty “Gaelic Symphony” died away at the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox before Music Director James Lowe introduced another symphonic masterpiece little known in this country and unjustly neglected: “A Sea Symphony ...