The Eastside View

O UR SKINS ISOLATE our bodies from the matter surrounding them, but provide sacks for the uncountable millions of organisms whose unknowabl...

Eastside Road, August 9, 2012— (minor corrections August 10, 2012) R ECENTLY I WROTE about the degree of comfort the producing team has wit...

Mozart: La finta giardiniera (The pretend gardener), K. 196 (1774) Nardo: Gordon Bintner Sandrina: Jennifer Cherest Podestà: Casey Candebat ...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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