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Spokane pianist Archie Chen survived a COVID scare to perform with the Spokane Symphony this weekend.
On Dec. 18, 1945, barely three months after the formal end of World War II, the Spokane Philharmonic Orchestra took the stage of the Masonic Temple Auditorium for the first concert in its inaugural season. Conductor Harold Paul Whelan raised his baton and led the 72 musicians in a performance of the overture to Christoph Gluck’s Iphigeneia in Aulis. Drawing on the mythologized prelude to the Trojan War, Gluck’s opera asks if the price
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