The Eastside View

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

Friday, June 26, 2009

Phèdre

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Eastside Road, Healdsburg, June 25, 2009— N EARLY THREE YEARS AGO I wrote here about a production of Jean Racine's magnificent traged...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

Squeak Carnwath

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Eastside Road, Healdsburg, June 25, 2009— F OR A NUMBER OF YEARS now I've been enjoying (inadequate word, that) the painting of the Oak...
Sunday, June 21, 2009

Chekhov

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T HE MODERN THEATER BEGINS with Chekhov, say I. By Modern Theater I mean theater that primarily addresses the modern condition, which puts ...
Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Taming the Shrew

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Eastside Road, Healdsburg, May 5— A ND WHAT OF the last of the three plays we saw over the weekend in Glendale? Well, treated reasonably de...
Sunday, May 03, 2009

Anouilh: The Rehearsal

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Glendale, May 3— I 'VE BEEN THINKING all day about last night's play, The Rehearsal , translated from Jean Anouilh's La Répéti...
Saturday, May 02, 2009

The Relevance of Ibsen

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Glendale, May 2— H ERE WE ARE in Glendale again, on a semiannual visit to see theater. The resident repertory company, A Noise Within , is ...
Monday, April 27, 2009

Four plays in Ashland

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Portland, April 27— I 'VE BEEN REMISS : I should have told you about the plays we saw last week at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in A...
Saturday, April 11, 2009

3/50

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G IOVANNA WRITES a nice blog (as she always does) about an idea new to me, 3/50 . The idea is to help the local economy by determining to ...
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Washington D.C.

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Washington, DC, April 8 2009— L INDSEY TOOK IT in mind to fly out here for a week of mostly sightseeing, and why not: It's cherry-bloss...
Thursday, March 12, 2009

gatharuda lapidis in memoriam

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S YCHRONICITY is a fine thing; over at The Compass Rose Curtis Faville introduces a striking photograph of his with an equally striking op...
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Sunday, March 08, 2009

Ubu Roi

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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...
Friday, February 20, 2009

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

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Eastside Road, Healdsburg, February 20, 2009 O VER ON HIS BLOG Renewable Music , Daniel Wolf writes Not writing enough (i.e. almost no) so...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Crisis and community

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Eastside Road, Healdsburg, February 17, 2009 O NE THING ABOUT THE DEPRESSION , it may force us away from extreme individualism back toward a...
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Sinfonia Muta

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Eastside Road, Healdsburg, February 4, 2009 I POST THIS SONG here, not because it's particularly important, but because I hope thereby...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Aimez-vous Brahms?

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Eastside Road, Healdsburg, January 27, 2009 M OZART'S BIRTHDAY ! And here I sit thinking about Brahms, because a friend asks me what it ...
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Thursday, January 15, 2009

Mall Mozart

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Eastside Road, Healdsburg, January 15, 2009 Originally written as a pre--blog sometime in 2003, re-posted in response to Whiting's comme...
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Monday, January 12, 2009

Oral history

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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 - ...
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Saturday, January 10, 2009

Time Machine

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Eastside Road, Healdsburg, January 10, 2009 I JUST SPENT TWO HOURS at the Exploratorium in San Francisco nearly twenty years ago — Novembe...
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Monday, January 05, 2009

Reading Mathews

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Eastside Road, Healdsburg, January 5, 2009 N OTED WHILE READING The Way Home , by Harry Mathews (London: Atlas, 1999). Perhaps because a te...
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Sunday, January 04, 2009

For Piano

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