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From the Studio: Symphony Week - Day 3, Part 2

Spokane Public Radio | By Verne Windham
Published September 16, 2015 at 1:08 PM PDT

  Symphony Week is well underway, and Wednesday was a double header here at Spokane Public Radio.  You can read all about our first guests - Jorge Luis Uzcategui and Janet Napoles - in our Day 3, Part 1 post.  Part 2 of today's segment features a new musician with the symphony, third flutist Jennifer Slaughter, who is also one of our very own at SPR, manning the front desk every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.  This is Jennifer's first season with the symphony, and she talked with Verne about her musical roots and transition to her new home in Spokane.  She also played some unaccompanied music for solo flute for us.

The Spokane Symphony's Classics concert series begins this weekend - Saturday, September 19th at 8:00pm and Sunday, September 20th at 3:00pm - with "Russian Adventures," featuring Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2, "Little Russian."  Tickets available now online at TicketsWest or by contacting/visiting the Box Office at the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox. 
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Verne Windham
Verne Windham got his start at Spokane Public Radio 20 years ago. “I came in to complain and they hired me.” He’s now the Program Director, as well as the host of Morning Classical and Concert of the Week. When choosing music for Morning Classical, Verne likes to keep the agenda as broadly defined as possible. For Concert of the Week, he focuses on the best of recent local performances, mostly classical in nature. For many years, Verne was also the conductor of the Spokane Youth Orchestra. He enjoys gardening, his vintage car and playing French horn.
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