The Eastside View

Eastside Road, March 27, 2014— F OR YEARS WE'VE SUBSCRIBED to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival , the impressive repertory company in Ash...

Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) John Cage (1912-1992) Lou Harrison (1917-2003) I   MET L OU H ARRISON in the early 1960s, probably at the Cabr...

I HAVEN'T BEEN GIVING enough attention lately to blogs, either to my own or to those of others. I find online comments and blogs, car...

Shin-ichi Matsushita: Subject 17 T HE RECENT CONCERTS by Other Minds brought an earlier festival to mind: the Third Annual Festival of the ...

W HAT HAS TRADITIONALLY set historians apart from all other commentators on the past is their conviction that the past has both the ability...

Alfred Jarry: Ubu Roi translated from the French by Rob Melrose Directed by Yury Urnov The Cutting Ball Theater 277 Taylor Street, San Fran...

W HAT TO SAY ABOUT Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem ,  seen last night at San Francisco Playhouse? We sat center, first row mezzanine, t...

John William Waterhouse: Undine (1872) W E SAW D VOŘÁK'S OPERA Rusalka Saturday, as sent "live" from the Metropolitan Opera...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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