The Eastside View

James Baldwin: Go Tell It On the Mountain   (1953) Library of America no. 97 (ed. Toni Morrison),  pp. 1-215 Giovanni’s Room (1956) op. cit....

(16 May) [John] Fitzgibbon had called the day I was working on the grant application for The Bride, to invite me to his Bride-based event ...

The Villa Garzoni in Collodi, near Lucca, was the first Italian hillside garden we visited. Many gardens have impressed me: Het Loo, the Alc...

The Large Horse , bronze, by Raymond Duchamp-Villon, one of Marcel Duchamp’s older brothers, who was destined finally to take sculpture in...

A Facebook friend challenged me to post a work of art a day, one I have seen in person or has greatly affected me, and incorporates the vis...

From The Old Ways , by Robert Macfarlane (Penguin Books, 2012) (many thanks to Deborah Madison): ‘As I watch [the world],’ wrote Nan Shephe...

Eastside Road, April 13, 2020 I DIDN’T KNOW Helene Aylon well, but I considered her a friend. I first met her in 1975 or ’76, I think. I ...

I ’ VE BEEN LISTENING to Haydn these last few weeks, chronologically as is my absurd compulsion: at first the string quartets, up through...

Perhaps stay-in-place will revive the blog, which declined, in some cases died, in the last couple of years — perhaps the victim of increase...

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 ...