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National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States.

The Inland Northwest, also known as the Inland Empire, is a region in the Pacific Northwest centered on the Greater Spokane Area, that includes All of Eastern Washington and all of North Idaho.

The region also contains the Tri-Cities.

The portion of Montana west of the Continental Divide is often included as part of the region.

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western music, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

While a more accurate term is also used to refer to the period from 1750 to 1820 (the Classical period), this article is about the broad span of time from roughly the 11th century to the present day, which includes the Classical period and various other periods.

The central norms of this tradition became codified between 1550 and 1900, which is known as the common-practice period.

The major time divisions of Western art music are as follows:

Jazz is a music genre that originated amongst African Americans in New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in Blues and Ragtime.

Since the 1920s jazz age, jazz has become recognized as a major form of musical expression.

It then emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African American and European American musical parentage with a performance orientation.

Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation.

Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime, as well as European military band music.

Although the foundation of jazz is deeply rooted within the Black experience of the United States, different cultures have contributed their own experience and styles to the art form as well.

Intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as "one of America's original art forms".

Spokane is a city in the state of Washington, in the northwestern United States.

It is the seat of Spokane County, as well as the economic and cultural center of the Spokane Metropolitan Area, the Greater Spokane Area, and the Inland Northwest.

It is located along the Spokane River west of the Rocky Mountain foothills in eastern Washington, south of the Canada–US border, approximately from the Washington–Idaho border, and east of Seattle along Interstate 90.

The city, along with the whole Inland Northwest, is served by Spokane International Airport, west of downtown Spokane.

According to the 2010 Census, Spokane had a population of 208,916, making it the second largest city in Washington and the 102nd largest city in the United States.