The Eastside View

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

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Venice Journal, 7: a dismal story.

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Venice, May 31, 2011— A S MENTIONED THE OTHER day, we were at first not allowed to go out the second gate from our apartment here, which wa...
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Monday, May 30, 2011

Venice Journal, 6: cats and changes

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Campiella della Pazienza, Venice, May 30, 2011— A MONG THE OTHER changes in this town, changes to be expected given human mortality and the...
Saturday, May 28, 2011

Venice Journal, 5: canals

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Campiella della Pazienza, Venice, May 27, 2011— B ECAUSE OF WRESTLING with Italian, French is momentarily away from my brain, and I can...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

Venice Journal, 4: the pace

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Campiella della Pazienza, Venice, May 26, 2011— T HERE'S A LOT of stuff in this town: bricks, stones, tiles, glass, more trees than you...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Venice Journal, 3: the edge of Cannaregio

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Campiella della Pazienza, Venice, May 25, 2011— Y OU MAY HAVE NOTICED , though probably not since it's such a trivial matter, a change i...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Venice Journal, 2

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Rio della Crea, Venice, May 24, 2011— N OT THAT MANY changes here in Venice, apart from that Calatrava bridge mentioned yesterday. There i...
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Monday, May 23, 2011

Venice Journal, 1

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Rio della Crea, Venice, May 23, 2011— A N EASY FLIGHT on EasyJet from London across the dramatic Alps, a gentle descent to Marco Polo airpo...
Sunday, May 15, 2011

Dinner in Transylvania

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Sibiu, June 1983: A nice band, too: alto sax, guitar, organ (!), bass, drums; and decent food, the best I had in Romania, I think. Curious p...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

… (we've been busy)…

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An excellent test: Bring everything to silence In the midst of noise.
Friday, April 01, 2011

On the road again: Elfring trip

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W E'VE BEEN TO SO MANY places with this couple, old friends, dear friends: Hans and Anneke, who live in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, but tra...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Pierre Boulez at Hertz Hall, Berkeley

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P IERRE B OULEZ IS only one of many enthusiasms I lost track of over the years. In the late 1950s and throughout most of the 1960s I kept up...
Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Skews

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I AM NOT WRITING the blog I want to write: a report on the three nights of performances by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company we saw last we...
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Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Two operas: Orphée; Nixon in China

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M Y POSITION ON THE MUSIC of Philip Glass is odd: when I'm not actively hearing it I tend to reject interest in it on grounds of princi...
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

…reading…

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Spoon Fed (Riverhead Books, 2010), by Kim Severson: enjoyable. A breezy memoir in nine chapters, each centered on one or another well-know...
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Wednesday, February 09, 2011

The Genuine Article: Chekhov's Seagull in Mill Valley

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S LAVIC LANGUAGES LACK the definite article , as anyone with a Czech in the family can attest. So Libby Appel's version of Anton Chekhov...
Monday, February 07, 2011

Keener sounds: Robert Erickson at Mills College

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" W HAT IS IT FOR ?", Ann asked, as we sat in her small comfortable small living room after the concert. We'd been reflecting ...
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