Category: Reviews
Oregon Mozart Players brings back its Jeffrey Eaton Chamber Series with the first of three concerts
By Daniel BuckwalterThe soft sounds and bouncy rhythms of Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf was a soothing antidote to the chaos of the outside world on a recent late Friday afternoon. From the second floor of the Eugene...
Read MoreReview: Fifth and Final candidate for conductor of the Eugene Symphony “leads with authority and grace”
By Daniel Buckwalter (#CommonManAtTheSymphony)Fierce storms and delicate elegance. There were sharp turns in each direction on Feb. 13 when the Eugene Symphony Orchestra played at the Hult Center’s Silva Concert Hall, all of it...
Read MoreReview: Delgani String Quartet takes its audience for a musical roller coaster ride
By Daniel BuckwalterA cold winter morning, a hot cup of coffee, and the only sound is the pitter-patter of cat feet chasing down toys on hardwood floors. I bring up this moment of morning bliss because on Feb. 4 it was revealed...
Read MoreReviewer: Eugene Opera’s Rigoletto offers Verdi’s glorious music as well as first-rate voices and acting
By Daniel BuckwalterYou are the court jester. You work for the Duke of Mantua. You have mocked the husbands of the Duke’s many sexual conquests as well as Monterone, a statesman whose gorgeous underage daughter has been seduced....
Read MoreReviewer: Eugene Symphony conductor candidate Tania Miller “magnificent” in her turn at the podium
By Daniel Buckwalter(#CommonManAtTheSymphony)It was a night rich in brava moments, and the end result this spring could be that the Eugene Symphony Orchestra might have just its second female presence on the podium as its new...
Read MoreReviewer: VLT’s cast in August: Osage County are all “powerful actors and have created full and interesting characters, from top to bottom”
By Kelly Oristano “All happy families are alike. And then there’s Tracy Letts.” (— Leo Tolstoy, if he’d been a 21st-century theater critic) August: Osage County, onstage now at The Very Little Theatre and directed by Carol...
Read MoreReviewer calls Oregon Mozart Players’ end-of-year concerts “always one of my favorites”
By Daniel BuckwalterAnnually, this is one of my favorite concerts in the Eugene-Springfield area. It comes at the end of another chaotic year, and I can use the serenity that candlelight and soft, pastoral music bring. The...
Read MoreReviewer: 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...
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11th Annual Grilled Cheese Experience February 1 – 28, 2025
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33rd Annual Chefs’ Night Out! Monday, April 7, 2025
