Author Archives: Scott Foglesong

Osmo Vanska, probably best known as the conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra in Finland, has become the musical director of the Minnesota Orchestra. In the process he and the orchestra are putting out a complete Beethoven symphonies cycle, at … Continue reading →

Having recently been revisiting my interest in Broadway albums, replacing some of my old library copies, getting new stuff, and so forth, it seems that right now is a good time for a “top ten” list of Broadway albums. Utterly … Continue reading →

It’s true that audiophiles can get kind of silly sometimes. Voodoo is rampant in the industry, extravagant claims, unbelievably high price tags, etc. Some absolutely swear by LPs (even though they don’t have the frequency response of digital recordings), or … Continue reading →

Every year I teach a course at UC Berkeley, for the fall semester. This year was my seventeenth, in fact. One little rule I’ve had over the years is that I would never depend on the money from that class, … Continue reading →

I’m much less a performing artist than I was in an earlier part of my life; I took some years off from performing and, when I returned, I had decided for sure that I would play only when I wanted, … Continue reading →

The update was truly painless on my laptop, a recent-model MacBook Pro. Everything just flew along and before too long it was running just fine. For a major OS update, this one really has been a piece of cake. A … Continue reading →

Amazing, but true. It’s gone perfectly. There don’t seem to be any applications that don’t work with it, and everything is humming along. Spotlight finished working through my system disc and can look up anything much more quickly than the … Continue reading →

OK — at this moment I’m writing from Leopard. So far the install has gone without a hitch. I’m wondering a bit why my menu bar isn’t transparent — perhaps that’s calling on the graphics card a bit too much. … Continue reading →

So far…it says there are 8 minutes left to go. Initially it reported it was going to need something like 4 hours, but that changed in a big hurry. Nothing seems to be having any problems. But of course the … Continue reading →

The saga continues… Right now it’s checking the DVD for consistency. Very, very good idea; you don’t want a bad disk to mess up your installation.