Music directors and conductors, such as our James Lowe, customarily try to plan a program to end with a bang. In this weekend’s pair of concerts by the Spokane Symphony, Lowe chose to begin with one: ...

A young girl, cook Varia, loses her job because no one needs her haute cuisine in a roadside café. Sweet, energetic, witty – she runs as far away from home as possible in search of realization! But an ...