The Eastside View

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

Thursday, January 31, 2008

We shall never be able to do anything like that!

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M OZART: CONCERTO IN C MINOR, K. 491 . James Keller repeats the old story in the program booklet of the San Francisco Symphony: Once, walki...
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Friday, January 25, 2008

Initialisms

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January 25, 2008 F ROM THAT FASCINATING WEBLOG Language Log : LOWER-CASED INITIALISMS It is a small but not insignificant recent change ...
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Thursday, January 24, 2008

The Winter's Tale

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S HAKESPEARE WAS IN a retrospective mood when he wrote that problematic play The Winter's Tale : just about every theme he ever visited...
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Monday, January 21, 2008

Music honest and dishonest

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T HE QUESTION OF "dishonest music" is raised on the blog On An Overgrown Path A lazy search took me to three sites. The first tu...
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Thursday, January 17, 2008

Mahler's Ninth

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S TANLEY FISH, I read somewhere online today, has announced the end of the humanities. I thought we were through with that sort of thing, th...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

How does x understand the impulse that motivated y?

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A FRIEND GAVE ME a copy of Alfred Schnitke's Choir Concerto last week. After listening to it I wrote him "Oddly it recalls Feldm...
Monday, January 14, 2008

Let's begin to focus…

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What we really need, ultimately, is the Complete Jackson Mac Low, a multi-volume multimedia project on the scale of the works, say, of Walte...
Friday, January 11, 2008

"The snow is general..."

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(to be read while listening to "Winter," in John Cage's String Quartet in Four Parts) S TART THE YEAR getting back in touch w...
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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 ...
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