The Spokesman-Review: Spokane Symphony review: Leonard Slatkin conducted a visual and auditory masterpiece

The Spokesman-Review
By Larry Lapidus

Unless they had attended other performances led by Leonard Slatkin, ticketholders at this weekend’s concerts by the Spokane Symphony received something more for the price of admission than they expected, something that they should, and probably will always remember.

They expected, and certainly received, very fine performances of three works for orchestra: “Double Play”, by Cindy McTee, “Francesca da Rimini,” by Piotr Tchaikovsky and the Symphony No. 1 in C minor of Johannes Brahms. What they could not have expected was an emotional, and even visual journey of such variety, intensity and breadth.

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