The Spokane Symphony sends off three percussionists retiring after more than four decades each with the orchestra

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Retiring Spokane Symphony percussionists (from left) Bryan Bogue, Paul Raymond and Rick Westrick.

At the end of the Spokane Symphony’s current 78th season, three musicians will put away their music stands for the final time, taking a combined 142 years of symphony percussion experience with them.

Paul Raymond, Bryan Bogue and Rick Westrick joined the symphony in 1974, 1975 and 1981, respectively. They don’t recall much about their auditions, though they all remember feeling a bit naive for thinking they even had a

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