Category: Music
Review: Among the adjectives for Eugene Symphony’s December concert — elegant, captivating, magnificent
By Daniel Buckwalter(#CommonManAtTheSymphony)The sweeping, melodic and familiar phrasing of Ludwig van Beethoven and Sergei Rachmaninov gave patrons of the Eugene Symphony Orchestra an elegant sendoff to the holiday season. Led...
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Review: Third finalist in Oregon Mozart Players’ conductor search is a familiar face in the Eugene music scene
By Daniel BuckwalterA friend among Eugene’s classical music circle was welcomed back on Nov. 23...
Read MoreReviewer: Performance full of “humor and good cheer” opens the Eugene Concert Choir’s 2024-25 season
By Daniel Buckwalter To usher in the ambitious 50th season of the Eugene Concert Choir, on Nov. 16-17 there was a concert of light merriment and revelry, courtesy of the vocal chamber ensemble, Eugene Vocal Arts. Wassail all...
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Eugene Concert Choir presents “Renaissance Revels,” a concert of songs by the madrigal masters
 Edited by Randi Bjornstad Through the years, the singers of Eugene Vocal Arts — a vocal chamber...
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Oregon composer’s new opera for children will be onstage in Eugene Nov. 16-17
By Randi Bjornstad Ashley Hastings is at it again. Since taking up writing operas several years...
Read MoreReview: microphilharmonic heralds warms fall chill with “comfortable” Baroque music
By Daniel BuckwalterThe comfortable sounds of Baroque-era music played on period instruments filled Jaqua Concert Hall at The Shedd Institute over the weekend, just as the chilly rainy season began its seemingly yearly,...
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Review: Oregon Mozart Players’ second candidate for artistic director “comfortable in his audition”
By Daniel BuckwalterIt was an engaging evening all around. The Oregon Mozart Players on Oct. 19...
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Reviewer: Oregon Mozart Players’ season opener offered “something for everyone”
By Daniel BuckwalterAnd we’re off and running to find the next artistic director of the Oregon...
Read MoreReview: Delgani String Quartet opens its 10th season with “refinement blossoming to exquisite fun”
By Daniel BuckwalterDelgani String Quartet has always been a beacon of stirring and graceful chamber music in its nine full years of performing, a breath of elegance and education playing classics and newer works with gusto. In...
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Maestro Dave Moss is a real Eugene Symphony fan
(Above: Dave Moss, Eugene Symphony’s new executive director, shows his enthusiasm in his...
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Chamber Music Amici announces new executive leadership — and its Two-Day Summer Festival concerts on Sept. 3-4
Edited by Randi Bjornstad Here’s the news from Chamber Music Amici … Loi Heldt,...
Read MoreReviewer: “Listening to Vik is always a highlight for me”
By Daniel BuckwalterResplendent in a hot pink gown, she strides to center stage in the melodic opening sequence of the song Where or When, from the musical Babes in Arms. It is showtime, and, as always, Siri Vik is in command....
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