Category: University of Oregon
Review: Oregon Bach Festival underway through July 12
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...
Read MoreOregon Mozart Players’ Brian McWhorter gets a breather after three jam-packed years
By Daniel BuckwalterIt was always a stop-gap measure, and now Brian McWhorter feels the work is done.He announced in February that he was stepping down as executive director of the Oregon Mozart Players after being appointed to...
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Reviewer: UO School of Music and Dance’s piano concert made for “wondrous music” and “glittering keyboard performances”
By Daniel BuckwalterFour stately concert pianos on a stage with 22 pianists playing snippets of...
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Oregon Mozart Players opens its season with its new artistic director and conductor, David Amado
(Above: David Amado, new artistic director and conductor of the Oregon Mozart Players; the group...
Read MoreReview: UO Gospel Ensemble concert helped restore hope, love, and faith in a polarized world
By Daniel BuckwalterHope, love, and faith. We can use these three words, especially in the heated, polarized world we live in. All three words were in joyful abundance on June 8 at Beall Concert Hall when the University of...
Read MoreReview: UO Symphony plays homage to the Roman pines — and by association, Oregon’s own coniferous forests
By Daniel BuckwalterThe stately pine tree. It is taken for granted, perhaps, by any longtime Oregon resident, and almost no Oregonian associates it with Rome, Italy. Yet the iconic stone pine (also called the umbrella pine and...
Read MoreReviewer: University of Oregon vocalists “compelling, a joy to listen to”
By Daniel BuckwalterAs winter term ends at the University of Oregon, spring weather gloriously bathes us with warm sunshine. I know, it’s blinding and lovely. Even so, March 16 was a good evening to be indoors. Specifically, it...
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Review — Stiletto Brass Quintet as sharp as the heels that gave them their name
By Daniel BuckwalterEvery so often in the dead of winter, with no letup in sight from rainy (or...
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Reviewer: “Much to cheer about” in UO Wind Symphony and Wind ensemble concert at Beall Hall
By Daniel BuckwalterYouth was served on Oct. 20 at the venerable Beall Concert Hall at the...
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The Oregon Bach Festival makes its in-person, post-pandemic return with “A Celebration of Voice” from June 17 to July 5, 2022
By Randi Bjornstad The Oregon Bach Festival makes a solid return after two years of “virtual...
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Unique art by Chinese-born American artist Hung Liu on display at the UO art museum
(Above: Detail from one of Hung Liu’s many murals, part of the Remember This: Hung Liu at...
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New grant program offers Black artists a chance to express their views of social injustice and systemic racism
(Above: An image from a recent show of Black artist Carrie Mae Weems photographs at the Jordan...
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