The Eastside View

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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 ...