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Renowned maestro Leonard Slatkin next waves his baton in Spokane. |Lewel Li photo
To what do we owe the honor of having internationally acclaimed conductor Leonard Slatkin lead the Spokane Symphony in two performances at the orchestra’s home venue?
Or maybe the question should be to whom.
“I was at a dinner one night after an opera with my friend Tom Hampson,” Slatkin recalls, “and he just happened to ask me, ‘Would you go to Spokane and conduct?'”
Having spent his formative years in
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