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Concert Reviews

REBEL in Kulas Recital Hall, Oberlin (November 23)
by Jeremy Reynolds
With six sonatas from the baroque era on the program, all titled Sonata, one might have expected the music to...
››› December 21, 2014

Oberlin Musical Union, College Choir, and Arts & Sciences Orchestra (December 7)
by Monica Hunter-Hart
The enormity of tragedy cannot be overstated. Tragedy is not melancholy, the passing glumness you experience over a lonely day....
››› December 21, 2014

REBEL in Kulas Recital Hall (November 23)
by Candy Chang
Named after the eclectic French Baroque composer Jean-Féry Rebel, REBEL (Jörg-Michael Schwarz and Karen Marie Marmer, violins, John Moran, cello,...
››› December 21, 2014

Cellist Zuill Bailey & pianist Allie Su (January 29)
by Daniel Hautzinger
When you perform as often "as humanly possible," which Darrett Adkins described cellist Zuill Bailey as doing in his introduction...
››› February 14, 2014

Oberlin String Quartet Intensive and Festival: January, 2014
by Daniel Hautzinger
Rehearsing five hours a day for a month in a small room with the same three people, learning an...
››› February 14, 2014

Oberlin Opera Review: Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel
by Daniel Nitsch
A row of children, one of whom held in her outstretched hand a witch's decapitated head, was the scene to...
››› December 5, 2013

Oberlin Artist Recital Series Review: Ravel--Intimate Masterpieces (November 5)
by Daniel Hautzinger
How many sounds can a small ensemble produce? If the composer is Ravel and the performers are as attuned to...
››› December 5, 2013

Oberlin Artist Recital Series Review: Ravel--Intimate Masterpieces
by Daniel Nitsch
Kicking off the 2013-14 Oberlin Artist Recital Series, the Jupiter String Quartet joined Oberlin faculty and alumni to explore "Intimate...
››› December 5, 2013

Oberlin Opera Review: Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel (November 8)
by Daniel Hautzinger
The Grimm fairy tales in their original form are balanced between wondrous magic and harsh realism, children's delights and gruesome...
››› December 5, 2013

Concert Review: eighth blackbird and Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble
by Daniel Nitsch
Led by conductor Tim Weiss and joined by three-time Grammy-award winning sextet eighth blackbird, Oberlin Conservatory's Contemporary Music Ensemble (CME)...
››› December 5, 2013

Oberlin Opera Review: Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel (November 8)
by Aaron Wolff
The idea for the opera Hansel und Gretel was proposed to Humperdinck by his sister, who approached him about writing...
››› December 5, 2013

Oberlin Opera Review: Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel
by Jarrett Hoffman
Children cutting off a dead witch's head? Holding out their fists to the audience as their parents kneel in prayer,...
››› December 5, 2013

Oberlin Artist Recital Series Review: Ravel--Intimate Masterpieces
by Jarrett Hoffman
If you wanted to hear some Ravel--or simply some great music in Oberlin--Finney Chapel was the place to be on...
››› December 5, 2013

Oberlin Artist Recital Series Review: Ravel--Intimate Masterpieces (November 5)
by Aaron Wolff
There was a point in Ravel's Introduction et Allegro at Oberlin's "Ravel: Intimate Masterpieces" concert Tuesday night when harpist Yolanda...
››› December 5, 2013

Oberlin Opera Review: Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel
by Larry Dunn
Perhaps it's something in the water (it does taste bit odd) or maybe it's a witches spell? How else could...
››› December 5, 2013

Oberlin Artist Recital Series Review: Ravel--Intimate Masterpieces
by Larry Dunn
An impassioned performance of Maurice Ravel's Chansons Madécasses was the highlight of an Oberlin College concert that was otherwise rather...
››› December 5, 2013

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