By Daniel Buckwalter The time will come this season when the glorious storm that is Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony will be unleashed on stage by the chamber group microphilharmonic, with vocal soloists and a choir. For...
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By Daniel Buckwalter Conversations were plentiful to open Chamber Music Amici’s 2026-27 season....
Read MoreBy Daniel Buckwalter (#CommonManAtTheSymphony) The opening concert of this season’s Eugene Symphony Orchestra Masterworks Series was a feast for the eyes as well engaging to the ear. If you can forgive a quick reference to...
Read MoreBy Daniel Buckwalter This was an enchanting afternoon, inside a mausoleum. That’s not said often, to be sure, but the season finale for this year’s Music to Die For series was all of that and more when the Oregon Bach Collegium...
Read MoreBy Daniel Buckwalter It’s the Steinway and the pianist on stage. That’s it. Nothing more, and the entire night had the feel of an athletic event. Questions surface: Is the grand piano a thoroughbred racehorse that the pianist...
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