By Daniel BuckwalterSometimes the old becomes new again, as I was reminded at a recent Oregon Bach Festival concert. The standard bearer for re-imagining music classics on July 9 was Conrad Tao, a 32-year-old, well-traveled and...
Read MoreBy Daniel BuckwalterA glorious pastoral landscape came into sharp focus when the Oregon Bach Festival’s Baroque Orchestra took center stage. Exquisite all-around grace was sprinkled with spritely and melodic elegance, and there...
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(Above: Composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate, creator of American Indian Symphonies...
Read MoreBy 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...
Read MoreBy 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...
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