Category: Reviews
Reviewer: microphilharmonic opens new season with “elegance and grace”
By Daniel Buckwalter The time will come this season when the glorious storm that is Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony will be unleashed on stage by the chamber group microphilharmonic, with vocal soloists and a choir. For...
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Reviewer: Chamber Music Amici performances “always a treat”
By Daniel Buckwalter Conversations were plentiful to open Chamber Music Amici’s 2026-27 season....
Read MoreReviewer: Eugene Symphony’s Masterworks October concert “the perfect choice” to open the season
By Daniel Buckwalter (#CommonManAtTheSymphony) The opening concert of this season’s Eugene Symphony Orchestra Masterworks Series was a feast for the eyes as well engaging to the ear. If you can forgive a quick reference to...
Read MoreReviewer” —Oregon Bach Collegium offered “wonderful performance” at Hope Abbey Mausoleum on Oct. 11
By Daniel Buckwalter This was an enchanting afternoon, inside a mausoleum. That’s not said often, to be sure, but the season finale for this year’s Music to Die For series was all of that and more when the Oregon Bach Collegium...
Read MoreReviewer: First annual “Murdock International Piano Competition” at UO riveting and taxing for both players and audience
By Daniel Buckwalter It’s the Steinway and the pianist on stage. That’s it. Nothing more, and the entire night had the feel of an athletic event. Questions surface: Is the grand piano a thoroughbred racehorse that the pianist...
Read MoreReview: Chamber music + pulsating rock sounds = lush richness at Art House
By Daniel Buckwalter The lush richness of contemporary chamber music recently met up with the pulsating rock-like sounds of guitar pedal effects tied to the clarinet, its amplification ricocheting off the walls and ceiling of...
Read MoreReviewer: Delgani finds “musical riches” in unusual places
By Daniel Buckwalter Leave it to Delgani String Quartet to find musical riches in places no one thinks to look. Take, for instance, the group’s season-opening We the People program, which finished a five-concert, four-city run...
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Eugene Opera includes the classic “Macbeth” in its 50th anniversary season
By Daniel Buckwalter All hail Eugene Opera in this, its 50th anniversary season. All hail Giuseppe...
Read MoreReview: Eugene Symphony offers elegant opening to its 2026-27 season
By Daniel Buckwalter (#CommonManAtTheSymphony) Thump … thump thump. Thump … thump thump goes the timpani and bass drum along with the gong splashing its harmonic overtones with dramatic crashes that are at once jolting as they...
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Reviewer: OCT’s “Spring Awakening” captures teenage angst, youthful sexuality, and love
By Kari Welch Do you remember what it was like to be a teenager? Everything was heightened —...
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Maude Kerns Art Center Mayor’s Teen Art Show on the walls
(Above: Eugene Mayor Kaarin Knudson chose Spring Awakening by Kamilah Voots as the Mayor’s...
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Review: Bach Collegium opens season, will perform next on Oct. 11 at Eugene’s historic Masonic Cemetery
By Daniel Buckwalter Knock on wood, but the seemingly endless blue sky with its sticky heat that...
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