During this weekend’s Masterworks performances, the Spokane Symphony will explore melodies made for movement and a brass instrument with its own sense of expression: the trombone.

Trombonist Brad Williams usually draws a few laughs when he shuffles onstage for a performance of Luciano Berio’s “Sequenza V.” He wears oversized shoes, along with a red wig, white gloves and full ...

William Levi Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony was, briefly, a roaring success after Leopold Stokowski gave the first performances with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1934, and it should have made Dawson a ...