Author Archives: Scott Foglesong

Today I drove out to the Avenues to shop at Andronico’s — my favorite grocery store, despite the sky-high prices. An adorable little old lady, her fluffy silver-white hair balanced atop a quilted beige cloth coat, had begun her shopping … Continue reading →

Even at the height of finals week (now blissfully in the past tense) I have continued exploring the spectrum of musicianship from the very-narrow-and-specialized to the very-broad-and-generalized. Musicians typically fall somewhere along that graduated scale, with few dwelling at the … Continue reading →

Recently I’ve been giving some attention to the notion of a gradated scale amongst musicians from utilitarianism (i.e., restricting yourself only to what you need for the objective at hand) to mysticism (i.e., allowing no restrictions, even those imposed by … Continue reading →

This particular posting is only the first tentative scratching at a deeply buried issue. It comes from some recent experiences discussing curricular issues with other faculty, and also comparing some of my instinctive responses to questions about a musician’s life … Continue reading →

I’m just about to give up on movie theaters, not that I have ever been particularly enthusiastic about the damn things. Despite the lure of gargantuan screens with their matching vibro-lush sound systems, I am fed up with, disgusted with, … Continue reading →

Back in September I mentioned how much I had enjoyed the challenge of writing very short, streamlined liner notes for the SF Symphony’s “Keeping Score Soundtracks” releases. How to describe the Eroica in 150 words? Quite the writing étude. Although … Continue reading →

The title is perhaps a bit misleading; I don’t mean that everything is new again, but that’s the song lyric. It being Thanksgiving break and all, and having caught up with my various activites (including finishing an article on Bruckner … Continue reading →

Please contemplate the following article titles, taken from a recent sampling of computer-industry websites: Pirate Bay Shutting Down; Are Torrents Dead? Does Chrome OS Spell the End of Desktops? Is Zune the iPod Killer? Apple is snuffing out smokers and … Continue reading →

I don’t hate San Francisco; in fact, I can’t imagine ever thinking of it with anything but love. Not only is SF a beautiful and remarkable city, but it has also been incredibly good to me. I’ve had a great … Continue reading →

Nobody who has spent more than a few minutes around me can fail to be aware that I live in a state of perpetual doodad acquisitiveness and experimentation. My life is filled with doodads. Also gizmos, thingamabobs, and whatchamacallits. I … Continue reading →