From the Studio

Wes Jessup, Executive Director of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC) shares highlights of the new fall exhibitions including the headliner, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection, which opens to the general public on Sunday, October 3. Wes says it is the best private collection of work by the most innovative artist of the 19th century and includes everyday objects -- furniture, vases, lamps -- transformed into works of art through bold colors, beautiful designs

KPBX presents Villa Blues & Jazz, a Kids' Concert featuring jazz masters performing memorable and fun songs that have become jazz standards. Villa Blues includes Heather Villa, Steve Bauer, Michael Lenke and Brian Flick. This is Part 2 of the program aired on September 25, 2021. For more information on Spokane Public Radio events, and to listen to past KPBX Kids' Concerts, visit https://www.spokanepublicradio.org/topic/spr-events.

KPBX presents Villa Blues & Jazz, a Kids' Concert featuring jazz masters performing memorable and fun songs that have become jazz standards. Villa Blues includes Heather Villa, Steve Bauer, Michael Lenke and Brian Flick. This is Part 1 of the concert that aired on September 25, 2021. For more information on Spokane Public Radio events, and to listen to past KPBX Kids' Concerts, visit https://www.spokanepublicradio.org/topic/spr-events.

Verne talks to Gina Freuen, founder of the Little Spokane River Artist Studio Tour, along with participating artist Sheila Evans. (Images are those of the participating artists.) The Little Spokane River Artist Studio Tour takes place from 10AM - 5PM on Saturday, September 25th. Visit for the map and more information on the participating artists.

Symphony Week concludes with an interview and in-studio performance from Spokane Symphony's James Lowe and acclaimed feature violinist Bella Hristova. The first of the Symphony's Masterworks concerts will include Hailstork, Sibelius, and Brahms, with Lowe conducting. Masterworks 1: The Return of the Symphony will be performed Saturday, September 18, at 8 pm, and Sunday, September 19, at 3pm. For tickets and more information, visit .

Symphony Week continues with Verne Windham's conversations with SSO Music Director James Lowe, Education Manager Alexandra Rannow and Symphony Chorale Director Kristina Ploeger-Heckmatpanah. In-studio with us is Symphony percussionist Bryan Bogue who also talks with Verne and performs a pair of short pieces on vibraphone.

Tuesday of Symphony Week 2021 brings us a conversation with Spokane Symphony Conductor Laureate Eckart Preu. Also, from our studio, Syphony cellist Helen Byrne and husband, Symphony tubist Leonard Byrne talk with Verne Windham and play a two-part invention from living African-American composer, Adolphus Hailstork.

Symphony Week at Spokane Public Radio continues with a preview from another Montana orchestra featured previously on Concert of the Week . The new Bozeman Symphony season, the first planned by new Music Director Norman Huynh, debuts the 25th and 26th of September at Bozeman's Willson Auditorium. Here's Jim Tevenan's conversation with Nroman Huynh, puncutated by the music of Johannes Brahms, played in January 2020 by the orchestra.

As part of Symphony Week at Spokane Public Radio, we travel virtually to Montana to check out the new seasons of orchestras featured on our Concert of the Week broadcasts. John Zoltek, Music Director of the Glacier Symphony Orchestra and Chorale tells about GSC's upcoming season, and about a new piece for cello and orchestra by Maestro Zoltek that debuts this fall. More information about the orchestra, chorale and their season is at glaciersymphony.org .

A long-standing KPBX tradition returns after a COVID-caused hiatus. It's Symphony Week, five mornings dedicated to the upcoming concert seasons of regional orchestras, with a special emphasis on the return of the Spokane Symphony to the stage of the Fox Theater for performance in front of a live audience. In this first segment Verne Windham welcomes Symphony Music Director James Lowe and Executive Director Jeff Vom Saal, along with Concertmaster Mateusz Wolski for conversation and a few music