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Steve Wenig Joins Spokane Symphony as Executive Director
Spokane, WA — The Spokane Symphony is proud to announce the appointment of Steve Wenig as its new Executive Director. Wenig brings more than two decades of arts administration experience to the role, including a decade of senior leadership as Vice President and General Manager of the Oregon Symphony. Steve ...
Symphony review: Mateusz Wolski’s devotion to music, performance ever present in Masterworks 7
By Larry Lapidus The Spokesman-Review March 30, 2025 It is a mark of the unique relationship between the people of Spokane and Mateusz Wolski, the concertmaster of their orchestra that, in providing a title to the seventh concert in this season’s Masterworks Series, Music Director James Lowe felt no need ...
Ferris High School violinist wins seat in Spokane Symphony
By Monica Carrillo-Casas The Spokesman-Review March 31, 2025 At just 13, Jessie Morozov, now 16, performed Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3 in G with the Spokane Youth Symphony Orchestra, a piece usually reserved for advanced violinists. From her first three-chord note, her confident, rich vibrato captivated the audience. She’s only ...
Catching up with Vision Quest star Matthew Modine, who’s returning for a screening of the Spokane-set, high school wrestling cult classic
By Seth Sommerfield Inlander March, 6 2025 When it comes to Spokane cinema, it's hard to top Vision Quest. The 1985 film is one part coming-of-age high school flick, one part amateur wrestling sports movie and one part romantic drama. It centers on Louden Swain (Matthew Modine, in his first starring ...
Actor Matthew Modine talks Mead High workouts, ‘Vision Quest’ scenes that didn’t make the cut and sing-along songs as part of Spokane International Film Festival appearances
Azaria Podplesky The Spokesman-Review March 6, 2025 When asked, actor Matthew Modine is quick to say that no, he did not anticipate that he’d still be talking about “Vision Quest” 40 years after its release. The 1985 film starred Modine as high school wrestler Louden Swain, who is looking to ...
Symphony review: Conductor Shira Samuels-Shragg delivers elegance, precision as violin soloist Gabrielle Després provides extraordinary performance
By Larry Lapidus The Spokesman-Review March 2, 2025 The audience at Saturday’s concert of the Spokane Symphony – No. 6 in their Masterworks Concerts series – had no reason to expect anything more than another one of many pleasant evenings of familiar music at the Martin Woldson Theater at the ...
