The Eastside View

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

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Four books of love and anger: Bang, Crane, Nesi

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•Herman Bang: Tina , translated from the Danish by Paul Christophersen (London and Dover N.H.: The Athlone Press, 1984, ISBN 0-485-11254-X) ...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Einstein on the Beach

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V ERY SPECIAL NEWS: The Chatelet production of the Wilson-Glass opera Einstein on the Beach can be seen in its entirety — four and a half h...
Saturday, January 11, 2014

Manzoni: I Promessi sposi

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Alessandro Manzoni: I Promessi sposi , translated as The Betrothed by Bruce Penman. Penquin Books, 1986 . C HRISTMAS WEEK is for reading,...
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Tuesday, January 07, 2014

More

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Next day's play, back home: TONY Also from Cuba, this menu: tuna, pork paté, bean soup… (Zulu nods.) …corn — take four ears, Dane.  DANE...
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Monday, January 06, 2014

News from Lumaire

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O N THE WAY BACK from our Christmas holiday in Portland I finally got in touch with Charles Lumaire, who I've known until now only thro...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

André Lurton, vignoble

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Autour d'une bouteille avec André Lurton by André Lurton with Gilles Berdin ISBN 978-2-35639-039-4 Bordeaux : Elytis, c2010. “ A NDRÉ L...
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Saturday, December 07, 2013

Einstein, Poincaré, and the drift toward Relativity

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Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time . By Peter Galison. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003. M OM ALWAYS LISTENED ...
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Tuesday, December 03, 2013

Remembering Judy Rodgers

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W E HAVE LOST another major presence — in our extended family, in our profession, in our community. Judy Rodgers, who was always so focusse...
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Turrell, Francis, Hockney

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James Turrell: A Retrospective . Through April 6, 2014. David Hockney: Seven Yorkshire Landscape Videos, 2011 . Through January 20, 2014. Th...
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Sunday, November 24, 2013

Et in Arcadia ego

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W ELL, JUST DOWN THE ROAD from Arcadia, in Monrovia. California, not Liberia, thank Hermes. We are here to see the fall season of A Noise W...
Thursday, November 21, 2013

Robert Erickson: the quartets

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I HAVE BEEN remiss in not recording a few observations here about the four compositions for string quartet by Robert Erickson. I feel a litt...
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Friday, November 08, 2013

Diebenkorn; Erickson

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Eastside Road, November 8, 2013— I PROMISED NOT to write this month, I know, but I'd be remiss not to mention two Bay Area events worth...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Take some time off!

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T HERE ARE OTHER THINGS to be said: another novel of Frederic Tuten's just read ( Tallien: A Brief Romance, which made me think of Geo...

Music in space

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L AST SATURDAY WE HEARD Lisa Bielawa’s Crissy Broadcast, the San Francisco variant of a piece she wrote for performance at Berlin’s old Te...
Friday, October 25, 2013

Sociopaths

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The recent Congressional breakdown over funding the government suggests that today’s social “warfare” is not between Christians and Muslims,...
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Sunday, October 20, 2013

The Dutch-American historical connection

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From the vault: this was written last January, but for some reason never posted to the blog. It still seems to the point. Y ESTERDAY I READ ...
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Thursday, October 17, 2013

Staff of Life

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Eastside Road, October 16, 2013— N EARLY TWENTY-FIVE years ago, in 1989, the noted home baker, teacher, and cookbook author Marion Cunningh...
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