The Eastside View

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

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Pleasures and proprieties

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 Epen, February 28 , 2012— T HIS HAS BEEN  a particularly nice stay, the last couple or three days in our beloved Netherlands — as always, I...

All we like grass…

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Epen, February 28, 2012 On yesterday's ramble through the fields along the river Geul we came upon a poem engraved on a tablet set out i...
Monday, February 27, 2012

Dutch interior

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Epen, Feb. 27,2012— W E VISITED AN ACQUAINTANCE yesterday in her twostorey brick bungalow set among oaks, beeches, and birches in a semirur...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

"Heureusement, je fume"

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Puiflijk, February 26—   I QUIT SMOKING in 1968, after sixteen years of mostly pipe-smoking. It wasn't too hard, though I'd been a ...
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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Back on the long road…

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In flight, February 23, 2011— T HIRTY IN THE New World, including two in Baja California. Twenty-six, I think, in Europe; seven in the Pa...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

St. Valentine's Day

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My Valentine, on her 76th birthday in Venice (photo: Francesca Źivny) Eastside Road, February 14, 2012— I DON'T CARE what Pope Paul VI ...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

The Great Gatsby

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Marco Pannucio (Gatsby), Susannah Biller (Daisy), Julienne Walker (Jordan), Jason Detweiler (Nick), Daniel Snyder (Tom) (photo: Steve DiBart...
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Monday, January 30, 2012

On the trail

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Eastside Road, January 29, 2012— Lindsey on the trail O N THE ROAD AGAIN , as you see. The last week of January is so often a beautiful fals...
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Friday, January 20, 2012

Asides on an Ebay Oboe

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A S I KNOW I' VE mentioned before — ah yes; here it is — my instrument in high school was the noble bassoon — partly because as a yo...
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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Pirandello's ashes

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For a little project I've been working on I turned to the remarkable story of the ashes of Luigi Pirandello, the great Italian novelist ...
Monday, January 09, 2012

Back to the source

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Eastside Road, January 9, 2012— A LMOST EXACTLY TWO YEARS ago I posted an incomplete blog here. I was reminded of it today, when I got to th...
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Friday, December 30, 2011

Nothing to be frightened of

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So many books read this last year, so few of them commented on here. End-of-year reflections will haunt me for the next seven weeks, I'm...
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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Query

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Looking at what you've just done, the critics ask what's in it for them , for their immediate entertainment or information; and may...
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Saturday, December 17, 2011

Twelfth Night

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Pasadena, December 17— M Y FAVORITE OF ALL Shakespeare plays — I know, it's a ridiculous formulation — is Twelfth Night . It has some ...
Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Satyagraha

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Wow: Googling around while relaxing in that twenty minutes before bedtime I find this: Se Reich e' l'Haydn del minimalismo, Adams ne...
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Friday, December 02, 2011

Recognizing the Midtone

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Berkeley, December 2, 2011— S ITTING IN A CAFÉ over a cappuccino I have no time to write here properly, but I want to call attention to an ...
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Saturday, November 26, 2011

Charles and Lindsey Engage in Dialectic

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For no particular reason I recalled this little poem this morning: Charles and Lindsey Engage in Dialectic Grizzly bear and mountain lion at...
Monday, November 07, 2011

For Daidie's Seventieth

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Eastside Road, November 7, 2011— A FEW DAYS AGO friends came to dinner and to discuss a little project we're working on together; I don...
Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Nearly Ninety

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Palo Alto, November 2, 2011– Extraordinarily rewarding, finally moving performance here last night of Merce Cunningham's Nearly Ninety2,...
Saturday, October 29, 2011

Gordon Cook

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Eastside Road, October 29, 2011— I T'S TOO LATE to tell you about it; the show closed today; but the work of Gordon Cook has found its ...
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