The Eastside View

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...