The Eastside View

Cardona di Alfano Natta, October 28, 2014— Siamo uccelli di passagio , I explained to Gabriella last night at dinner, we're migratory bi...

our building, Via Principe Tommaso   WE CAME HERE to Torino to atttend the Salone del Gusto, an international fair celebrating food and its ...

New York City, October 21, 2014— UPWARDS OF A THOUSAND people, I'd say, jammed themselves into a small triangular patch separating the a...

N O ONE MORE AWARE than I how badly this blog's been neglected lately. Please excuse this neglect, and prepare for more. I've been ...

En balançant , for two pairs of bowed instruments (first half of the score) Screen , for four to six bowed instruments Vie lactée , for any ...

Profiting from an early rise, while we still have unlimited bandwidth, I've uploaded sound files to my second piano sonata, Sonata compo...

A friend posts, on Facebook — yes, I spend some time there every day — [A friend] tagged me, asking for a list of ten books that have stayed...

•Charles Shere: Requiem with Oboe . Healdsburg: Ear Press, 2014 Full study score, 6x9, 48 pages Available at Lulu.com , $9.99 F INALLY PUBLI...

•Terry St. John: New and Recent Paintings and Drawings . Dolby Chadwick Gallery, 210 Post Street, San Francisco Exhibition continues through...

Christmas 2010: My dear daughter-in-law, the granddaughter of a Nobelist on the Berkeley faculty, brought up unconventionally in Berkeley (a...

“ D EATH JUST MEANS YOU'RE NOT INVOLVED ANY MORE. —Wendell Berry ”

•Célestine Vaita: Breadfruit . New York and Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2006 ISBN 978-0-316-01658-2 •Célestine Vaita: Frangipani . New Yo...

•David Bellos: Is that a fish in your ear? Translation and the meaning of everything. New York: Faber and Faber, 2011; 978-0-86547-857-2 for...

T HIS IS HOW I like to remember Robert Erickson; he looked very much like this, as I recall, when I first met him, in 1963 or so. He was th...

Photo: Jim Shere, 2012 Eastside Road, June 21, 2014— I   HAD HOPED to report here on a fine road trip we have just taken, four thousand mil...

WE'VE BEEN ON the road for nearly two weeks, and blogging has suffered — both here and over at Eating Every Day. Most of my jotting has ...