The Eastside View

Eastside Road, November 19, 2016— "Songs move through time, seeking their final form. What happens on that path is only partly up to th...

Eastside Road, November 18, 2016— F OR A COUPLE of weeks now I've been thinking, from time to time, of the production we saw on Sunda...

Pasadena, California, November 6, 2016— BEAR WITH ME: I am thinking at the keyboard: how to describe my reactions to two recent production...

Pasadena, California, November 5, 2016— NO REASON TO BE too serious about this: Molière's The Imaginary Invalid is pure comedy, the c...

Eastside Road, October 28, 2016— I N THE LATE 1960s and early 1970s I was interested in making short pieces of music. Some of them were ...

  Via della Luca Robbia, Torino, September 24, 2016—  A CERTAIN AMOUNT of reflection on that thorny and unrewarding question lately, ever s...

Eastside Road, September 1, 2016— M Y FIRST PIANO SONATA was completed November 10 1989 but composed mostly in 1983 and 1984 while w...

Eastside Road, August 31, 2016— I   HAVE ALWAYS WANTED to write a piece for woodwind quintet. I played bassoon in high school, and a ...

•Handel: Agrippina . •Janáček: Příhody Lišky Bystroušky     (The Cunning Little Vixen). •Thomas Adès: Powder Her Face . Seen at West Ed...

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Mt. Jackson, from our ridge, Eastside Road Fri. May 27: broken toe Sun. May 29: Coast walk Sat. June 4: 22 mile history walk Mon. J...

Mt. Baldy hike, April 24 Eastside Road, May 29, 2009— I T HAS BEEN a long time since my last post here. One of the recent distract...

Paso Robles, March 29, 2016— W E'RE ON A SHORT road trip with a 13-year-old grandson, introducing him to favorite California roads of ...

CURTAIN RAISER followed by LADIES’ VOICES an opera in five acts to words by GERTRUDE STEIN music by CHARLES SHERE 1987 commi...

Eastside Road, March 4, 2016—   M ARCH. TWO MONTHS into the new year , I resume. I was apparently temporarily frozen, the proverbial deer...

Prinseneiland, January 7, 2016— O NE OF MY FAVORITE Dutch painters is Pieter Jansz. Saenredam (1597 - 1665), who specialized in the depic...