The Eastside View

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

Monday, August 27, 2012

Commonplace: Judt (Postwar)

›
“ O N ONE THING , however, all [in Europe at the end of World War II] were agreed—resisters and politicians alike: ' planning '. ...
Sunday, August 26, 2012

Commonplace: Judt, Postwar

›
“ A BOVE ALL, VIOLENCE became part of daily life. The ultimate authority of the modern state has always rested in extremis on its monop...

Farewell, my lovely…

›
M Y LOVELY QUEEN , that is: we saw Benoît Jacquot's film Les adieux à la reine yesterday, a very beautiful and quite intelligent film b...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Commonplace: Judt on collective vs individual rights

›
“ T HE ATTRACTION of the notion that the ethical resides in the individual is that it reduces it to a decision-making process or a set of e...
1 comment:
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Commonplace: Yates

›
“ A COMPOSER'S IDIOM is his own manner of speaking as creative thinker, original as the sound of his own voice. His content is his esth...
Monday, August 20, 2012

Commonplace: Levin Becker

›
“ Q UENEAU'S MOST QUOTED REMARK is probably his declaration, in the 1937 novel Odile , that the true artist is never inspired—he is alw...
Friday, August 17, 2012

Stravinsky

›
W ONDERFUL, GETTING OLD ; There to the left is Igor Stravinsky at twenty-eight, about the time of Firebird; here I am a few days from seven...
5 comments:
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Fun to cadres, cryptic sound

›
O UR SKINS ISOLATE our bodies from the matter surrounding them, but provide sacks for the uncountable millions of organisms whose unknowabl...
Thursday, August 09, 2012

Further on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival

›
Eastside Road, August 9, 2012— (minor corrections August 10, 2012) R ECENTLY I WROTE about the degree of comfort the producing team has wit...
Friday, August 03, 2012

Mozart: La Finta Giardiniera

›
Mozart: La finta giardiniera (The pretend gardener), K. 196 (1774) Nardo: Gordon Bintner Sandrina: Jennifer Cherest Podestà: Casey Candebat ...
1 comment:
Thursday, July 26, 2012

Shakespeare in Ashland

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
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

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

Outhouse

›
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...
1 comment:
Thursday, June 14, 2012

Music for the mind

›
Ojai North at UC Berkeley, June 13, 2012: Janáček: String Quartet 2, "Intimate Letters" Reinbert de Leeuw: Im wunderschönen Monat ...
1 comment:
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

Charles Shere
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.