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Northwest Arts Review: 3 September, 2020

Spokane Public Radio | By Jim Tevenan
Published September 3, 2020 at 12:00 PM PDT

This week, conversations with Spokane Poet Laureate Chris Cook and Inland Northwest Opera General Director Dawn Wolski, both key figures at the intersection of pandemic and the arts. Dan Webster offers his take on a documentary that explores the winning-is-everything mindset of contemporary politics, and we get some soothing sounds from our studio courtesy of guitarist Jacob Johnson.

Tenor Brandon Michael, in Opera Gram habitat

Spokane Poet Laureate, musician, and more--Chris Cook
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Programming Guitar HourChris CookSpokane Poet LaureateDawn WolskiInland Northwest Opera
Jim Tevenan
After more than 25 years of teaching music, theater and English in San Francisco schools, Jim relocated to Spokane in 1995 to become organist/music director for St. Augustine Parish on the South Hill. Since around 2004, with the help and patience of Verne Windham, he has been able to realize his long-standing dream of doing radio. Jim specializes in classical music, but also can do the occasional jazz show. Jim and his wife, Carol, fill their free time caring for llamas, rabbits and chickens after having watched their two children grow up and leave the nest.
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