Outstanding teen musicians perform in Spokane Youth Symphony's annual Concerto Competition

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The Spokane Youth Symphony is comprised of some of the region’s best young musicians.

In a large room at St. John’s Cathedral, Spokane Youth Symphony Artistic Director Philip Baldwin is leading his orchestra’s teenage musicians through the finale of Carl Maria von Weber’s Hungarian Rondo. Baldwin pauses and asks the violins to revisit a measure or two, stressing that he wants to hear a distinct “YUM-pum-pum-pum.”

Two tries later, they’ve nailed it, and the rehearsal resumes. Out in front of the group stands the

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