Category: Reviews
Reviewer: Eugene Concert Choir’s 2024 Messiah concert made for “a wondrous afternoon”
By Daniel BuckwalterGeorge Frideric Handel’s complete Messiah is an endurance test. It’s a three-hour, 53-movement fortitude check for the chorale, the orchestra, the soloists and the audience.Messiah is not for the faint of...
Read MoreReview: 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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Reviewer calls OCT’s Snow Fever: A Karaoke Christmas “marvelous theater”
By Kelly Oristano I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re goin’,...
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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...
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Reviewer: Farkhad Khudyev, candidate for artistic director of the Eugene Symphony, “was a pleasure to watch”
(Above: Farkhad Khudyev had his official tryout for artistic director of the Eugene Symphony at...
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...
Read MoreReviewer says cast of UO’s Frankenstein: Playing with Fire “is one of stronger student casts I’ve seen there”
By Jennifer Appleby Chu Maurice Sendak once said a parent’s primary duty to a child is to take them as they are. Such a simple concept, but one that eludes so many people. It was playing in the back of my mind on infinite loop...
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Hult Center’s Changemaker Speaker Series opened Nov. 10, continues on Feb. 27 and May 5
By Daniel Buckwalter “Mattias, have you asked the trees for permission?” Mattias Klum was on a...
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,...
Read MoreReviewer: Delgani String Quartet’s October concert “is a treasure” — and available online
By Daniel BuckwalterThe jolt came on Aug. 6 when Kimberlee Uwate announced on the Delgani String Quartet website and the ensemble’s Instagram account that she was stepping down after nine seasons to deal with health struggles...
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Reviewer: First contender for conductor/artistic director position “made a splashy statement”
By Daniel Buckwalter(#CommonManAtTheSymphony)We’re only at the start line in the final act of the...
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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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