Category: Reviews
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 AntonÃn 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...
Read MoreSeeing Oregon through an artist’s eye: Bets Cole at the Karin Clarke Gallery
Edited by Randi Bjornstad Longtime Oregon artist Bets Cole has a new — and large — solo exhibit on display at the Karin Clarke Gallery in downtown Eugene. It has been described as “taking a road trip...
Read MoreReview — Classical oratorio by Beatle Paul McCartney “a pleasant surprise”
By Daniel BuckwalterThere were flickers of doubt in my mind: Could a Paul McCartney-driven oratorio make sense without gimmicks of any sort? Can this be classical music? The pleasantly surprising answer was a qualified...
Read MoreReview: Stirring performance closes Eugene Symphony Orchestra season
By Daniel Buckwalter(#CommonManAtTheSymphony)There was a symphony concert May 14, and by the end of it, I was recalling the lyrics of a soulful country tune sung by Alison Krauss. That might be a stretch, and I’ll get to it...
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