Category: Reviews
Reviewer: 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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Review: microphilharmonic’s October concert a big winner
By Daniel BuckwalterIt is true — attendance for microphilharmonic’s season opener on Oct. 12 was...
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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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Reviewer: Eugene Symphony gives a “rambunctious” performance of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring
By Daniel Buckwalter(#CommonManAtTheSymphony)I don’t know this for certain, obviously, but I...
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Review of “The Play That Goes Wrong”: How to LAUGH AT a murder
By Kari Boldon Welch Guffaw. Chuckle. Chortle. Cackle. Giggle. How many words describe the...
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