The Eastside View

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

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Perception, Good Taste, Quiet Music

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Eastside Road, January 11, 2017 — B ECAUSE IT HAS BEEN so noisy lately let me encourage you to concentrate, for an hour, on small and quie...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

Lullaby

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                 listen (mp3)                  score (pdf) Portland, Oregon, December 29, 2016— W E WERE SITTING AROUND in t...
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Tuesday, December 20, 2016

That beast the piano

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Pasadena, December 20, 2016— M USIC HAS BEGUN to interest me again – I mean actually listening to it, preferably live — and in the last ...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

Three Songs from Tender Buttons

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Eastside Road, December 15, 2016— I MET THE WRITING of Gertrude Stein through the old RCA Victor recording of Virgil Thomson’s opera t...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

The New SFMOMA

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Eastside Road, December 10, 2016— I   HAVEN'T YET REALLY explored it nearly enough, but I'm here to tell you I'm pretty happy...
Friday, December 02, 2016

Coming to grips with a historical moment

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•Gregor von Rezzori: The Snows of Yesteryear . translated by H.F. Broch de Rothermann Introduction by John Banville New York: New York R...
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Saturday, November 19, 2016

Wandering among sound

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Eastside Road, November 19, 2016— "Songs move through time, seeking their final form. What happens on that path is only partly up to th...
Friday, November 18, 2016

Against authority

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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...
Sunday, November 06, 2016

Parallel narratives

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Pasadena, California, November 6, 2016— BEAR WITH ME: I am thinking at the keyboard: how to describe my reactions to two recent production...
Saturday, November 05, 2016

Molière's Imaginary Invalid

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Pasadena, California, November 5, 2016— NO REASON TO BE too serious about this: Molière's The Imaginary Invalid is pure comedy, the c...
Friday, October 28, 2016

Two short songs

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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 ...
Friday, September 23, 2016

What is art?

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  Via della Luca Robbia, Torino, September 24, 2016—  A CERTAIN AMOUNT of reflection on that thorny and unrewarding question lately, ever s...
Friday, September 02, 2016

Sonata 1: Bachelor Machine

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

Wind music

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Eastside Road, August 31, 2016— I   HAVE ALWAYS WANTED to write a piece for woodwind quintet. I played bassoon in high school, and a ...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

Three operas: Agrippina; Vixen Sharpears; Powder Her Face

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