Author Archives: Scott Foglesong

Certain household furnishings loom large in my memory, and none so than the blondwood RCA Victor Orthophonic Hi-Fi record player in the family room. It was the “good” record player, the one that only Dad was allowed to operate. A … Continue reading →

Back in my days when I minored in harpsichord with that Pied Piper of all things Baroque, Laurette Goldberg, on occasion I would take a lesson with Laurette’s graduate assistant. I forget her name. She was a representative of a … Continue reading →

Recently I have encountered a threat to a substantial collection of vinyl LPs — not my records, but an excellent library collection — that got my back up, my fangs out, and my blood roiling. I’m not even sure if … Continue reading →

I’m not the slightest bit antagonistic to the early music movement. I believe my credentials speak for themselves—harpsichord student of Laurette Goldberg back in the 1970s, then program annotator and scholar in residence for the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra for two … Continue reading →

We believe that music is such an important part of our lives that we should listen to it, even if we don’t like it. — Anna Russell So decrees the wonderfully bumbling music club president in Anna Russell’s bang-on parody … Continue reading →

Our society is awash in consumer watchdogs, all of them blowing their horns at full volume as they portend doom and gloom caused by our intemperate consumption of this and that. Chocolate. Sugar. Salt. Booze. Cholesterol. Triglycerides. Red meat. Dairy. … Continue reading →

Think like a violin, he would say, drawing his right arm over an air violin held in his left hand. No, Scott, no! she would coo, you must think of it like a singer, a beautiful singer with the line … Continue reading →

Recently I gave a presentation on the ambiguity of turning musical notation into actual sound. I began with an introduction that poses the notion of we Earthlings destroying our civilization via The Bomb, with a few shards of our culture … Continue reading →

I was dumbfounded to hear that every once in a while a Symphony lecturer doesn’t show up for the gig. Apparently once in a longer while, said lecturer doesn’t even call—but not because said lecturer is lying unconscious on a … Continue reading →

My profession is such that I spend quite a bit of time listening to recorded music. (Such a tough life I lead.) My listening ranges from purely functional (i.e., as part of preparing a presentation or a class) all the … Continue reading →