Review: Edmonton Symphony Orchestra serves classical comfort food Saturday night

Bill Eddins, now the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director Emeritus, is back in town to conduct a number of concerts with the orchestra, and on Saturday night (Jan. 13) he kicked off with what was very much an in-house ESO event.
The three soloists were all ESO players: Associate Concertmaster Eric Buchmann, Principal Horn Allene Hackleman, and Assistant Principal Horn Megan Evans. The concert also featured the premiere of a new concerto commissioned by the ESO from trombonist (and