The Eastside View

S YCHRONICITY is a fine thing; over at The Compass Rose Curtis Faville introduces a striking photograph of his with an equally striking op...

Eastside Road, Healdsburg, March 8, 2009 I DON'T RECALL when I first met Ubu Roi : probably sometime in the late 1950s, most likely th...

Eastside Road, Healdsburg, February 20, 2009 O VER ON HIS BLOG Renewable Music , Daniel Wolf writes Not writing enough (i.e. almost no) so...

Eastside Road, Healdsburg, February 17, 2009 O NE THING ABOUT THE DEPRESSION , it may force us away from extreme individualism back toward a...

Eastside Road, Healdsburg, February 4, 2009 I POST THIS SONG here, not because it's particularly important, but because I hope thereby...

Eastside Road, Healdsburg, January 27, 2009 M OZART'S BIRTHDAY ! And here I sit thinking about Brahms, because a friend asks me what it ...

Eastside Road, Healdsburg, January 15, 2009 Originally written as a pre--blog sometime in 2003, re-posted in response to Whiting's comme...

Eastside Road, Healdsburg, January 12, 2009 J OHN W HITING'S COMMENT to the previous post here sent me an an egosurf to his My KPFA - ...

Eastside Road, Healdsburg, January 10, 2009 I JUST SPENT TWO HOURS at the Exploratorium in San Francisco nearly twenty years ago — Novembe...

Eastside Road, Healdsburg, January 5, 2009 N OTED WHILE READING The Way Home , by Harry Mathews (London: Atlas, 1999). Perhaps because a te...

Eastside Road, Healdsburg, January 4, 2009 I T WAS MY SECOND piece for solo piano. (The first, Three Pieces for Piano , was composed about ...

Eastside Road, Healdsburg, January 3, 2009 T HE FRENCH NOVELIST Georges Perec always named his current cat Duchat, I read in Harry Mathews...

Eastside Road, Healdsburg, December 31, 2008 NOT MUCH TO DO beyond read, these days, read and socialize. The party was over yesterday, so th...

S CREEN WAS AMONG my first and remains, I think, my most successful “graphic” score: notation which relies completely on drawn elements, r...

S ILLIMAN'S BLOG STEERS ME to a note (from five months ago) about Wallace Stevens's poem Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing...

T HERE'S NOT A LOT I can write about this book that hasn't already been written many times over, I'm sure — it's among the ...

Eastside Road, Healdsburg, Saturday, December 13, 2008— W HAT? OH, YES , I should let you know about the plays we saw last week. It was the ...

Colorado St., Glendale, December 10— H ERE WE ARE IN Glendale, on one of our semi-annual visits for theatergoing. We usually arrive the fi...

FERE ALIQVVBI HIC ILLVD SCIO I' VE BEEN MULLING OVER this music for a couple of months now, Pierre Boulez's cycle Le Marteau sans m...

Y ESTERDAY WE ATTENDED a memorial service for Rae Imamura, the Berkeley pianist who died eight days ago of a brain tumor very recently disc...