Category: Reviews
Two plays by Eugene playwright Martin Fogarty scheduled for Open-Door Playhouse podcast
By Daniel BuckwalterForget the concept of forgiveness, for there is nothing to be forgiven for. It’s all about acceptance, according to Eugene playwright Martin Fogarty, and he has taken this thought and put it into two plays —...
Read MoreReview: 2026 Oregon Bach Festival reveled in America’s 250-year history
By Daniel BuckwalterSometimes the old becomes new again, as I was reminded at a recent Oregon Bach Festival concert. The standard bearer for re-imagining music classics on July 9 was Conrad Tao, a 32-year-old, well-traveled and...
Read MoreReviewer: OBF’s Baroque Orchestra concert offers “sweet, serene magic”
By Daniel BuckwalterA glorious pastoral landscape came into sharp focus when the Oregon Bach Festival’s Baroque Orchestra took center stage. Exquisite all-around grace was sprinkled with spritely and melodic elegance, and there...
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Review: Oregon Bach Festival offers “meaningful musical mosaic” with American Indian Symphonies
(Above: Composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate, creator of American Indian Symphonies...
Read MoreReviewer: Youthful singers at Oregon Bach Festival — “the sound was glorious”
By Daniel BuckwalterChildren took center stage June 30 at the Oregon Bach Festival, and the sound was glorious. This was a well-spent afternoon, and the standing ovation was genuine for the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus after...
Read MoreReview: 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 MoreReview: “Lush, quiet, and fun” as Concerts at First caps its musical season
By Daniel BuckwalterLush drama, a quiet nocturne, fun folk music from across the pond and a stellar performance of an Antonín Dvořák piano quintet filled the air of Eugene First United Methodist Church on June 21, 2026. The...
Read MoreReviewer: Chamber Music Amici concert with pianist Eunhye Choi “mesmerizing”
By Daniel BuckwalterA Steinway piano took center stage at the Wildish Theater in downtown Springfield, and its sound was glorious. Every grand piano needs a good driver sitting on the bench, of course, a pianist whose mastery of...
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White Lotus Gallery: 15 artists share their views of the world through nature’s materials
(Above: Welcome, by Wendy Huhn, is part of a show called Fiber Anthems at the White Lotus Gallery...
Read MoreReviewer deems UO’s play, “Los Dreamers,” a profound experience
By Daniel BuckwalterThis doesn’t happen often, but occasionally I run into a music or theater performance that I find profound, yet I wouldn’t even know where to begin to describe it or offer context. That’s fair, especially...
Read MoreReviewer: Eugene Opera’s “Three Decembers” — heartfelt, absorbing, and profound
By Daniel BuckwalterIt is the fragments that small children remember in a time of crisis — vivid memories of scenes, to be sure, but never enough of context to stitch those memories together to form a baseline narrative to the...
Read MoreReviewer: Oregon Brass Society plays “lyrical, intricate, and compelling” concert
By Daniel BuckwalterIt was billed as a “trial collaboration recital,” and I hope there is more of this to come. The Oregon Brass Society — with organist Lindsey Henriksen Rodgers — paired the grandeur and...
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