Category: Music
Reviewer: microphilharmonic opens new season with “elegance and grace”
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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Reviewer: Chamber Music Amici performances “always a treat”
By Daniel Buckwalter Conversations were plentiful to open Chamber Music Amici’s 2026-27 season....
Read MoreReviewer: Eugene Symphony’s Masterworks October concert “the perfect choice” to open the season
By 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 MoreReviewer” —Oregon Bach Collegium offered “wonderful performance” at Hope Abbey Mausoleum on Oct. 11
By 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 MoreReview: Chamber music + pulsating rock sounds = lush richness at Art House
By Daniel Buckwalter The lush richness of contemporary chamber music recently met up with the pulsating rock-like sounds of guitar pedal effects tied to the clarinet, its amplification ricocheting off the walls and ceiling of...
Read MoreReviewer: Delgani finds “musical riches” in unusual places
By Daniel Buckwalter Leave it to Delgani String Quartet to find musical riches in places no one thinks to look. Take, for instance, the group’s season-opening We the People program, which finished a five-concert, four-city run...
Read MoreReview: Eugene Symphony offers elegant opening to its 2026-27 season
By Daniel Buckwalter (#CommonManAtTheSymphony) Thump … thump thump. Thump … thump thump goes the timpani and bass drum along with the gong splashing its harmonic overtones with dramatic crashes that are at once jolting as they...
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Review: Bach Collegium opens season, will perform next on Oct. 11 at Eugene’s historic Masonic Cemetery
By Daniel Buckwalter Knock on wood, but the seemingly endless blue sky with its sticky heat that...
Read MoreReviewer: OFAM concert at The Shedd is a “21-song salute” to American folk music
By Daniel BuckwalterThere were moments when I felt a little disoriented in regards to my roots, and that’s not a bad thing. We can all refresh our memories from time to time through the interpretation of others. Take, for...
Read MoreReviewer: Don’t miss one more chance — on Aug. 22 — to attend OFAM’s “Painting With Blue”
By Daniel BuckwalterWe’re all forgiven for those moments when we annually forget the occasions we swore to always remember and, then happily trip over them again and say, “Oh, yes, I remember. I need to hear this.” One such...
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Reviewer: Piano recitals at Tsunami Books delivered “expressive elegance” and “explosive command”
By Daniel BuckwalterWe all live for those unexpected treasures tucked inside otherwise ordinary...
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Brombaugh organ marks 50 years at Central Lutheran Church in Eugene
(Detail of the 50-year-old pipe organ crafted by John Brombaugh in 1976 for Central Lutheran...
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