Author Archives: Scott Foglesong

My life being as it is, I don’t generally watch much TV except during the summer, when I have some vacation time and a chance to kick back on occasion. So I’ve been tuning in here and there, hither and … Continue reading →

During the course of this past year I became a frequenter of several classical music discussion groups on Usenet, partly to drum up business for SF Classical Music Examiner, and also as a lab to find out how some of … Continue reading →

Back to LiveJournal, complete with a new title for the blog and a new design, but it’s still the same old random chitchat of before. I’ve stopped writing for Examiner.com after having accumulated almost 150 postings on a wide variety … Continue reading →

A lot of future blog postings will be at my SF Examiner blog, which is: http://www.examiner.com/x-373-SF-Classical-Music-Examiner However, I’ll still be updating this one from time to time with more personal information. The Examiner blog is about classical music here in … Continue reading →

So the new Mac Pro is all set up and running. Actually, that was the case almost immediately; as one might expect from Apple these days, the computer came out of the box ready to roll, not a problem in … Continue reading →

It’s definitely enjoyable to see one of your students do well. I haven’t had all that much to do with Ben Jones’s education in some ways — the only thing he took ‘officially’ with me was Topics in Musical Analysis … Continue reading →

It’s similar to the way a dog circles around a spot for a while before finally lying down on it. When I’m getting ready to make a substantial purchase, I start going online and pricing it over and over, trying … Continue reading →

2008 is Herbert von Karajan’s 100th birthday (had he lived to this age, that is.) As a result there are a lot of recordings being reissued, given that this man is the most recorded artist in history (so far). He … Continue reading →

This year has seen me enter yet another activity in my musical career, on top of the umpty-million things I’ve done so far. I agreed to become one of the “Inside Music” lecturers for the San Francisco Symphony, giving the … Continue reading →

Sometimes I can’t quite believe that people can be as stupid as they can be. Evangelical Christians hellbent on disproving evolution by natural selection must qualify as among the most mentally-enfeebled human beings ever to walk the face of the … Continue reading →