The Eastside View

travel, eating, reading, theater, music; occasional political remarks

Monday, December 31, 2007

May it be small!

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I NTO HEALDSBURG THIS MORNING for a little last-minute shopping. A book at Levin & Co., a fine local bookshop. Rolls at the Downtown Ba...
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Sunday, December 30, 2007

Nearing the end of the year

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W ITH ONE DAY LEFT in a dying year, I re-read notes in the margin of Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Penguin Books, 20...
Friday, December 28, 2007

W.G. Sebald: Austerlitz

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A T THE END OF THE YEAR I look back over the books read, the theater seen, the meals eaten, the travels made in the last twelve months. The...

The Rest is Silence

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T O FINISH THIS LONG LOOK at Alex Ross’s The Rest is Noise : Part Three: 1945-2000 The Rest is Noise is formally symmetrical: the third an...
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Stockhausen again

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A PARTICULARLY MOVING ACCOUNT of the funeral of Karlheinz Stockhausen by the Chicago-born, francophone, Lithuanian-allied painter, poet,...

That Interruption, World War II

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C ONTINUING A LOOK at Alex Ross’s The Rest is Noise : Part Two: 1933-1945 Ross centers his survey of the music of the 20th century on three...
Sunday, December 23, 2007

The Rest is More than Noise

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DANIEL WOLF, over at his blog Renewable Music , had a recent post on the lack of consensus as to what is essential to know about musical st...
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Mary Isaak 1919-2007

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Mary Isaak transplanting fraises des bois F OR YEARS WE USED TO VISIT Mary Isaak every week during strawberry season. She was a colorful wo...
Thursday, December 20, 2007

Renewed Acquaintance: Karlheinz Stockhausen

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S OME TIME AGO , in 1992, I reviewed a number of books that had then recently appeared on the always vexing subject of the German composer K...
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Raymond Queneau: Le Chiendent

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F OR A NUMBER OF YEARS I've been reading the books of Raymond Queneau , the French writer -- "novelist" and "poet"...
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Monday, December 10, 2007

Pork Chops notre façon

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L. THINKS THE RECIPE came originally from Elizabeth David, perhaps The Mediterranean Cookbook . I don't know: we've made this for ...
Sunday, December 09, 2007

New Music in the United States (1950-1980)

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H AVING RECENTLY MOVED TO A FASTER computer — iMac, 2 gHz — I've decided to start retooling my website . And having re-read, a couple ...
Saturday, December 08, 2007

RIP Karlheinz Stockhausen 1928-2007

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K ARLHEINZ S TOCKHAUSEN DIED a few days ago, December 5; a memorial booklet on his website includes the composer's own summary of his...
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Friday, December 07, 2007

Are we lost yet?

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J ON CARROLL gets it wrong, I think, when he writes (here) about the use of GPS devices on the road. I suppose he's funny; but he'...
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Das ist die ewige Kunst

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W HAT BAD MUSIC DO YOU LISTEN TO? Driving down to Glendale that was the question: What bad music do you like to listen to? It's a provoc...
Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Magic transcendence (or not)

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B ACK HOME AGAIN from a quick trip to Portland, there to eat turkey, and another to Glendale, there to see plays. A Noise Within , the Glen...
Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Lindsey fixes dinner

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S O, THEN, NOTHING COMPLICATED : A can of sardines; a nice red onion quartered and sliced thin, a little olive oil on the bread, then the fi...

Geert Mak: In Europe

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I ' VE WRITTEN HERE about the books of Geert Mak, a Dutch journalist-historian who's produced an important sequence of studies of s...
Sunday, November 18, 2007

History of the 20th century (in 17 words)

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B OOKS RECENTLY READ , and awaiting notes here: Geert Mak: In Europe: travels through the twentieth century Alex Ross: The Rest is Noise: li...
Friday, November 09, 2007

Camino Real

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T O S AN F RANCISCO THE OTHER NIGHT , there to see, for the first time in just short of fifty years, Tennessee Williams's play Camin...
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