Daniel Buckwalter | Eugene Scene

Review: Oregon Bach Festival offers “meaningful musical mosaic” with American Indian Symphonies

Posted by Daniel Buckwalter | Jul 5, 2026 | Reviews

(Above: Composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate, creator of American Indian Symphonies...

Reviewer: Youthful singers at Oregon Bach Festival — “the sound was glorious”

Posted by Daniel Buckwalter | Jul 2, 2026 | Music, Reviews

By Daniel BuckwalterChildren took center stage June 30 at the Oregon Bach Festival, and the sound was glorious. This was a well-spent afternoon, and the standing ovation was genuine for the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus after...

Review: Oregon Bach Festival underway through July 12

Posted by Daniel Buckwalter | Jun 30, 2026 | Music, Reviews, University of Oregon

By Daniel BuckwalterThere was the exquisite as well as the melancholy of Gustav Mahler (but of course) and the work of a French composer from the 1920s that had one patron afterward believing he had heard a George Gershwin...

Review: “Lush, quiet, and fun” as Concerts at First caps its musical season

Posted by Daniel Buckwalter | Jun 23, 2026 | Music, Reviews

By Daniel BuckwalterLush drama, a quiet nocturne, fun folk music from across the pond and a stellar performance of an Antonín Dvořák piano quintet filled the air of Eugene First United Methodist Church on June 21, 2026. The...

Reviewer: Chamber Music Amici concert with pianist Eunhye Choi “mesmerizing”

Posted by Daniel Buckwalter | Jun 16, 2026 | Music, Reviews

By Daniel BuckwalterA Steinway piano took center stage at the Wildish Theater in downtown Springfield, and its sound was glorious. Every grand piano needs a good driver sitting on the bench, of course, a pianist whose mastery of...