The Eastside View

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

Friday, September 24, 2010

Theater in Ashland, 4: Twelfth Night; American Night

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Ashland, Oregon— W E FINISHED THIS SEASON of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival last night with a satisfying production of Twelfth Night . It ...
Thursday, September 23, 2010

Theater in Ashland, 3: The Merchant of Venice

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Ashland, Oregon— S O MUCH JUSTIFICATION for producing The Merchant of Venice was trotted out by the direction here at Oregon Shakespeare F...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Theater in Ashland, 2: Henry IV; questions of taste

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Ashland, Oregon— T HE REPERTORY HERE leans heavily to Shakespeare: after all, this is the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Every year we see at...
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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Theater in Ashland, 1: She Loves Me; Throne of Blood

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Ashland, Oregon— W E'RE BACK AT the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for six more plays, having seen the other five of the season last March...
Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Social capitalism

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W E DON'T TAKE that many magazines here; perhaps the only one I read more or less consistently is The Nation . Lindsey's father sub...
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Sunday, September 05, 2010

Michael Milani: It Happens Every Morning

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I ' VE BEEN READING three books simultaneously: James Joyce's Ulysses , Victor Navasky's A Matter of Opinion , and Michael Milan...
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Monday, August 02, 2010

Mitch Miller July 4, 1911 – July 31, 2010

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B ECAUSE THE BASSOON was my instrument through high school, and my best friend Merton played oboe, a fascination for the double-reed instru...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Another bad taste in the mouth

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D ON'T TALK TO ME about superstitions; I find them too useful to abandon them to the embrace of science. No sooner did I write about Ha...
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Monday, June 28, 2010

Harry Weininger 1933-2010

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I T'S NATURAL AND NECESSARY that we die in appropriate circumstances, therefore no cause for lamentation. When an exceptionally good ma...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Ilya Mouromets

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  P ROBABLY BECAUSE MY FIRST hands-on experience with music was in my high school band, where I concentrated on bassoon but learned most o...
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Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Italian journal, 19: last day in Paris

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rue des Petits Ecuries, Paris, June 10, 2010— S O MUCH WRITTEN (so much ephemera) so quickly; then so long a hiatus. From Enna we descended...
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Sunday, May 30, 2010

Italian journal, 18: conversation in Enna

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Piazza Vanvitelli, Caserta, May 29, 2010— I N E NNA A FEW days ago I had an interesting conversation with the moody young man at the "...
Monday, May 24, 2010

Italian journal, 17: further comments on Hippolytus

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  via Eumelo, Siracusa, May 24 — L OOKING OVER THE PHOTOS we took last night in the Greek Theater of the performance of Euripides's Hip...

Italian journal, 16: Driving in Europe

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via Eumelo, Siracusa, May 24 — C URTIS REMINDS ME of a few driving-in-Europe stories. My favorite was told by an acquaintance who'd got...
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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Italian journal, 15: to the theater

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  via Eumelo, Siracusa, May 23 W E LEFT R AGUSA with a little bit of regret. At least I did. The hotel had been comfortable, the technology...
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Saturday, May 22, 2010

Italian journal, 14: random thoughts

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S O MANY THINGS going through my mind, it was difficult to sleep last night. Shortly before turning in I received a message from an acquain...
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Friday, May 21, 2010

Italian journal, 13: Moving inland

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Ragusa, Friday, May 21— T ODAY REPRESENTS THE center day of our Sicilian journey: we arrived in Palermo the 11th; we propose to leave the i...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Italian journal, 12: Dancing Satyr

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Sciacca, Wednesday, May 19— I MAGINE AN EQUILATERAL triangle. Put yourself at one corner; Nature at another; Society at the third. Well, I...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Italian journey, 11: Mozia

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Tuesday, May 18— S ORRY TO LEAVE TrĂ pani, but eager to get on to the next sights, we drove out of town south today toward Marsala — but di...
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