The Eastside View

Berkeley, August 28, 2019— L ANGUAGE H AT TELLS ME that Alexander Gavrilov, in an interview, told a Russian blogger It was at that mome...

Small anx dr. Tim, L-judy rr- Cheryl, packing leave cabin.   letter to Bhisbma re disappear ink    Duchamp stuff ; early mss.  ...

Eastside Road, July 30, 2019— [as posted to San Francisco Classical Voice today] P ORTLAND OPERA neatly framed the human condition wi...

Eastside Road, June 1, 2019— Kent Nagano, with Inge Kloepfer: Classical Music: Expect the Unexpected Tr. from the German by Hans-Chris...

I HAVE UPLOADED the orchestral score of my Symphony in Three Movements (1989) to http://www.shere.org/pdfs/Symphony3Movements.pdf . The s...

Eastside Road, November 11, 2018— Doig, Ivan: This House of Sky Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979 ISBN 0-15-689982-5. pp 314     read 11...

I N 1964 , not yet (quite) thirty, I tried to work out an approach to discussing music. Writing about music, maybe talking about music, thin...

Viale Trastevere, October 3, 2018— P INUS PINEA . The graceful stems, stripped of unnecessary lower limbs, sustain broad canopies, inte...

Viale Trastevere, October 3, 2018— A RECENT EXCHANGE on Facebook began with this question: What is it about this moment that makes so ma...

…la morte deve spaventare ma non troppo. La natura che ci circonda, gli uomini e gli esseri viventi sono una cosa sola. Come non si deve off...

(Another in the occasional postings of essays by my late friend Bhishma Xenotechnites) ANCIENT GREEK ETYMOLOGIES OF FATE M OST OF OUR ...

Eastside Road, June 4, 2018— A NOTHER IN WHAT I hope will be a series of occasional posts having to do with my late friend Douglas Leedy ...