The Eastside View

In 1971 I wrote a piece of music called Handler of Gravity as the centerpiece of a concert of instrumental music from an opera, then in pro...

Kate Walbert: A Short History of Women . New York: Scribner, 2009 A novel about five generations of women, from Dorothy Trevor (married name...

MICHAEL STEINBERG 1929-2009 Michael Steinberg, music critic and musicologist, died yesterday, peacefully a mutual friend tells me, in hospic...

I T IS VERY SAD to hear about the death of Merce Cunningham, surely one of the most remarkable men I ever had the pleasure to meet. What I ...

Portland, July 10— I DON'T KNOW WHEN I've enjoyed meeting a new writer so much. Novella Carpenter's book Farm City is a compl...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...