The Eastside View

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

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Out of business

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T HE TIMES ARE NOT good. The nice Greengrocer in the nearby town of Windsor is closing at the end of the month. It was too good to make it...
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Saturday, September 19, 2009

Exposition, Development, Recapitulation

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I think there's something to be said for the idea that Modernism stands at the beginning of the third of three great ages of human exist...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Duchamp: Étant donnés…

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J UST FOR THE hell of it, and because Marcel Duchamp's final work Given: 1st the waterfall; 2nd the illuminating gas is in the news th...
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Monday, August 17, 2009

Handler of Gravity

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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...
Thursday, August 06, 2009

Recently read… four quick summertime books

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Kate Walbert: A Short History of Women . New York: Scribner, 2009 A novel about five generations of women, from Dorothy Trevor (married name...
Monday, July 27, 2009

Yet another obituary

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MICHAEL STEINBERG 1929-2009 Michael Steinberg, music critic and musicologist, died yesterday, peacefully a mutual friend tells me, in hospic...
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Merce Cunningham 1919-2009

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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 ...
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Sunday, July 12, 2009

Farm in town

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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...
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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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