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The Eastside View: 9: Agriturismo, 2°
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Travel, eating, reading, theater, music; occasional political remarks. Sunday, May 24, 2015. 9: Agriturismo, 2°. May 14-24, 2015—. A nice enough room: double bed; armoire; writing-table; bathroom with shower. Enough sockets to power the laptop and telephone chargers. (I always carry a three-outlet adapter.) No view, though; strictly utilitarian. What do all the guests do, during what must be a busy enough season to reward all these accommodations? His wife Carmela cooked our dinner and brought it to our ...
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The Eastside View: Lulu
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Travel, eating, reading, theater, music; occasional political remarks. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. 8226;Alban Berg: Lulu. West Edge Opera,. Jonathan Khuner, music director;. Elkhanah Pulitzer, stage director. Seen in Oakland, California,. July 25, 2015. Aug 2, 2 pm; Aug. 8, 8 pm. Philip Skinner as Dr. Schön, Emma McNairy as Lulu; Act I of Alban Berg's. Eastside Road, July 28, 2015—. We saw Alban Berg’s opera. Many of the vocal roles are quite demanding; the music is written in Berg’s version of Schoenb...
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The Eastside View: February 2015
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Travel, eating, reading, theater, music; occasional political remarks. Wednesday, February 18, 2015. Opera: Zelmira; Contes dHoffmann. Eastside Road, February 18, 2015—. E SAW A PERFORMANCE. Of Rossini's fine opera. Case in point: this mature Rossini score, premiered in Naples at the San Carlo in 1822, repeated to good reviews in Vienna, then throughout Italy; performed in London in 1824; then apparently dropped from the repertory, with few productions (and fewer staged! Michael Belle was nearly his matc...
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The Eastside View: 10. Agriturismo 3°
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Travel, eating, reading, theater, music; occasional political remarks. Sunday, May 24, 2015. 10 Agriturismo 3°. Viale Villa Pamphili, Rome, May 24, 2015—. Finally Google Maps brought us to this ugly building, quite close to its dusty country road, with a locked. Through which we say a dooryard littered with broken-down motorbikes, an old car or two, perhaps an abandoned refrigerator, an abandoned washing machine, bits of agricultural junk. No one in sight; not even a dooryard dog. A man’s arm appea...
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The Eastside View: June 2015
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Travel, eating, reading, theater, music; occasional political remarks. Monday, June 08, 2015. Eastside Road, June 7, 2015—. I N A MONTH. 160;in Italy, May 6 through June 3, we stayed in thirteen different apartments, hotels, and. Relying on four sources for suggestions: Airbnb. Naples and vicinity: . While the buildings are a good way from the center of the old city — a half hour's leisurely walk, I'd say — one of the three Naples. Is a five-minute walk from the gate; it leads down to the Chiaia area, wi...
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The Eastside View: April 2015
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Travel, eating, reading, theater, music; occasional political remarks. Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Eastside Road, April 27, 2015—. I returned yesterday from a five-day trip to Oregon, there on a sad assignment: assessing the library of my friend Bhishma Xenotechnites, also known as Douglas Leedy, who died just over a month ago. Note on Leedy's Library. Here too is a small but imposing collection of facsimile editions; some of music; others of texts. Reference books include two editions of. There are perhaps...
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The Eastside View: West Edge Opera
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Travel, eating, reading, theater, music; occasional political remarks. Tuesday, August 04, 2015. 8226;Alban Berg: Lulu. Jonathan Khuner, music director;. Elkhanah Pulitzer, stage director. Seen July 25 and Aug. 2, 2015. 8226;Laura Kaminsky: As One. Bryan Nies, music director;. Mark Streshinsky, stage director;. Film by Kimberly Reed. Seen July 31, 2015. Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria. Gilbert Martinez, music director. Mark Streshinky, stage director. Seen Aug. 1, 2015. Eastside Road, August 3, 2015—.
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The Eastside View: Placeholder…
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Travel, eating, reading, theater, music; occasional political remarks. Tuesday, June 02, 2015. Via Toglia, Cardona, June 3, 2015—. Since I've posted here, and I knew it would be thus: we've been in this hamlet in a tranquil corner of Monferrato, rather a backwater of Piemonte, for a family gathering; twenty-six of us at one point, and there's been neither time nor inclination to ruminate on things. 8230; or by watching Dominique's video…. I suspect Henry James had a similar kind of response to travel.
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The Eastside View: May 2015
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Travel, eating, reading, theater, music; occasional political remarks. Monday, May 25, 2015. Viale di Villa Pamphili, May 25, 2015. Day about the Roman ruins out at Ostia Antica — what must have been quite a big seaport town a couple of thousand years ago. As I noted, I have a fondness for ruins, which resonate with my innate melancholy. Nowhere in sight. We walked in some disappointment and confusion back to our car, to find another had just parked next to it. Its driver turned out to be a Germa...You c...
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The Eastside View: January 2015
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Travel, eating, reading, theater, music; occasional political remarks. Tuesday, January 27, 2015. The Power of Harmonia. 8226;Bhishma Xenotechnites: Monochord Matters: or, The Power of. At http:/ shere.org/Leedy/MonochordMatters.pdf; 19 pages. Eastside Road, January 27, 2015—. I do want to make it known, though, that he has published what I think is a significant monograph on a subject of considerable interest to him, as both musician and classicist. I had something to do with the publication, as I h...