The Eastside View

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

Thursday, May 29, 2008

The Eastside View

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Y ES, I KNOW : the little Milhaud survey is to be completed. I'll probably get back to that in a few days. It's been a busy time, p...
Thursday, May 22, 2008

Don Juan

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Glendale, May 21-- M OLIERE'S D ON J UAN is truly a wonderful play; if it's neglected here, it's probably because of Mozart and...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Test transmission

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Here's a test transmission from the TX using the folding keyboard, much as I propose to do this summer from the Alpwalk.
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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Mission, not quite accomplished

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Glendale, May 18-- W E SEEM TO HAVE STRUCK A PATTERN : a good play, a problem, a good one, another problem. Today it was an earnest politica...

Taking measure

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Glendale, May 17-- M EASURE FOR MEASURE TONIGHT : what an amazing play! We saw it at the small, community Eclectic Company Theatre : severa...
Saturday, May 17, 2008

Mannered Shakespeare; shapely Messiaen

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Glendale, Friday, May 16-- L AST NIGHT'S PLAY at A Noise Within -- The Night of the Iguana -- was so good, tonight was bound to be a ...
Friday, May 16, 2008

The Night of the Iguana

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O N A TRIP TO LOS ANGELES back in 2002, having a spare evening on our hands, we noticed Noël Coward's Hay Fever was playing at a theat...
Thursday, May 15, 2008

Morgen

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N O; IT'S NOT A LOVELY SONG by Richard Strauss I'm thinking of this morning. A glance at Language Lab this morning turns up some c...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Ouf! it's hot...

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GETTING READY FOR A WEEK out of town in May should not involve worrying about a heatwave "without historical precedent." Well: I ...
Friday, May 02, 2008

The Vexing Issue of Books

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A FEW PARAGRAPHS DOWN I'll tell you something about an Internet Book Thing I like. But by way of introduction, here's a list of book...
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Monday, April 28, 2008

Ashland theater season, 2: Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter; Fences

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I ADMIT IT : I didn't have high expectations for Julie Marie Myatt's new play Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter , which we saw in Ashland ...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Ashland theater season, 1: Hedda Gabler's Further Adventures; The Clay Cart

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O UR VISIT TO ASHLAND this spring brings us to four plays; we'll see the rest of the season in September. Every year three or four play...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

The Silver Screen

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S O, WHICH TEN MOVIES would you preserve for your old age? Off the top of your head, mind you; and no researching; and list only movies you...
Friday, April 11, 2008

A critic migrates further

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T H ERE HAVE BEEN TIMES , perhaps when my state of mind was more confused than usual, when I wasn't sure Phil Elwood and Alan Rich were ...
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Monday, April 07, 2008

Milhaud: Quartets, part four

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A FTER THE TERRIBLE BRAZILIAN WINTER — terrible for the thousands of deaths from influenza — came the joy of the Armistice, Nov. 11, ending...
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Sunday, April 06, 2008

Milhaud: Quartets, part three

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F ROM NOTES WITHOUT MUSIC , Darius Milhaud's memoir (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953): On September 27, 1915, as I was going across the...
Friday, April 04, 2008

Milhaud: Quartets, part two

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S INCE BEGINNING THIS SURVEY of Darius Milhaud's string quartets a few days ago, I ran across the full text of his memoir Notes Without...
Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Darius Milhaud: the string quartets (1)

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A FEW WEEKS AGO I ran across a lucky find on Ebay: the complete Milhaud quartets, on six LPs, recorded by two French string quartets. (Of ...
Saturday, March 29, 2008

Gerhard Samuel 1924-2008

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…s'il est de certaines paroles qui ne sont que les feuilles d'un arbre, il est de certains silences qui sont ceux de toute une foret...

White-Jacket

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I T TOOK A MONTH , but I've read White-Jacket , and have reached the longed-for point that finds Moby-Dick next in line. It's this ...
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