The Eastside View

Via Damaso Cerquetti, April 8, 2017— F IVE DAYS we have been here with little done or seen. Little, I mean, of the things one intends t...

Via Damaso Cerquetti, April 4, 2017— U NLESS DISTRACTED by something — a misguided sense of purpose, for example — stepping into an elev...

Eastside Road, March 30, 2017— V ERY QUICKLY because there's much to do before the weekend, an account of some recent museum exhibiti...

Monday, March 27, 2017— S O MANY RECENT experiences converging; time to awaken this Eastside View. The view outside is green green gree...

Nous français, nous avons notre Polynésie, Ces Marquises qui ont terminé Gauguin- Pris dans la porte provisoire des siècles et des culture...

Moon 1059 left eye clear: right, rainbow-ringed February moon.  they say there's a comet too this moon is enough for me

the Alps, late Schubert, a lifetime: for the long haul — after rain, summer Photo: Curt Clingman

Malaise, the word that comes to mind everyone seems to feel about the same  overlapping truths noised 24/7 two more friends gone            ...

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...