The Eastside View

photo: The Willits News I met Don Cobb in 1967, when the soprano Carole Bogard sang his Crazy Jane Songs at the Cabrillo Music Festival on ...

Canfield in Mills Pavilion. (Pauline's white head in audience, lower right.)        Photo: Lindsey Shere Eastside Road, October 7, 2012...

A NOTHER QUICK REPORT : another concert last night at Mills College, this one celebrating two epochal birthdays: John Cage's hundredth; ...

J UST A QUICK COMMENT on the play seen last night, Other People's Money, a comic oleo, I think you could call it, on a very topical su...

Eastside Road, October 1, 2012— F OUR AND A HALF years ago I abandoned a project here, a little survey of the eighteen string quartets comp...

“ T HE SOUNDS OF FORGING could be heard coming from every corner of the village — the three-beat rhythm of the hammer swingers striking met...

“ T YPICALLY AN ETHNOGRAPHY of a peasant group will devote a hundred pages or more to describing the agricultural sector in great detail, ...

“ [S HE] WAS INTERESTED in the place where vision meets execution, and where the poetic and the prosaic share space. She loved the way some...

Eastside Road, September 19, 2012— W HAT AN APT title: A Singular Woman , a biography of Stanley Ann Dunham, the mother of Barack Obama. Ja...

Pavel and I traverse the scree (photo: Simon Živny) I' VE ALWAYS WANTED to climb Mt. Shasta. We drive past it so often; it's so ma...

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

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

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...

“ 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...

“ 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...

“ 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...

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...

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 ...