The Eastside View

Eastside Road, December 22, 2014— L OOKING BACK OVER the year, as I do the week before Christmas most years, I find a forgotten poem writte...

Why I read Peter Schjedal, in the New Yorker: "Sculpture is the hardest art. Unlike diffidently wall-mounted painting, it intrudes on a...

•Keith Haring: The Political Line.   Through February 16, 2015. •Lines on the Horizon:   Native American Art from the Weisel Family Collecti...

•Jean Coqt: Skagen . ISBN 978-0-990-75880-8 •Jean Coqt: Tarifa . ISBN 978-0-990-75881-5 Healdsburg: Ear Press, 2014 Eastside Road, December ...

•Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles 1940-1954 . The Library of America, 2014 ISBN 978-1-59853-309-5 Edited and with notes and chronology by Ti...

If I had to do it again and it was the best thing about it is not the same thing to say The fact I can get it right away with the best of th...

I T WAS A FELLOW employee at the Berkeley Post Office, Gary Jerburg I think his name was — this was after all sixty years ago — who introdu...

Eastside Road, November 8, 2014— J UST WHEN I THOUGHT there was no particular reason to write any more music — in July, 2004, to be precis...

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...