The Eastside View

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

…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...

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 ...