The Eastside View

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

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Shakespeare in Ashland

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Ashland, Oregon, July 26, 2012— R OMANCE; TRAGEDY; HISTORY ; three of the four major categories of the Shakespeare canon, seen within thirty...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Bachelor Machine

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I F YOU'VE VISITED this blog before you're no doubt aware of my long-running infatuation with La Mariée mise à nu par ces célibatai...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Tony Judt: The Memory Chalet

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Last month I read the massive, discursive, utterly fascinating Thinking the Twentieth Century , an extended conversation in which Timothy Si...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Hoffmann; Frankenstein

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T O THE THEATER three times last week, with results pondered ever since. First of all, were we really at the theater. In fact we were at th...
Saturday, July 07, 2012

Violin concerto

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I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED eccentric violin concertos, by which I mean those somehow standing aside from the standard repertory. Mozart's, of ...
Wednesday, July 04, 2012

The post office

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T HE POST OFFICE BUILDING is for sale. The sentence seems absurd, ungrammatical. How could a post office building, ordained and constructed...
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Saturday, June 30, 2012

Outhouse

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W HEN WE BOUGHT our place here on Eastside Road, hence the name of this blog, we found twenty-eight acres, a horse, three sheep, a blue two...
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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Music for the mind

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Ojai North at UC Berkeley, June 13, 2012: Janáček: String Quartet 2, "Intimate Letters" Reinbert de Leeuw: Im wunderschönen Monat ...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Four Harrison songs

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A ND NOW, MARVELOUS how much time is gained on fast days, here are four more songs, written more recently, only three years ago… IN THE SP...
Monday, June 11, 2012

Two Rakosi Songs

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S OME LITTLE WHILE ago, in July 2007, I wrote here about Carl Rakosi's poem "Cenozoic Time," and Michael Kincaid's book ...
Thursday, June 07, 2012

Critics and criticism

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A FRIEND POSTS , via Facebook, Sibelius's famous remark about criticism: "Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Long walk to Fort Ross

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Fisk Mill Cove, Sonoma coast S ATURDAY, J UNE 2: GLORIOUS weather, fine terrain, good company — only the pace, a little slow and far too of...
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