Author Archives: Scott Foglesong

So this evening I spent some time installing Vista Home Premium on my Dell Dimension 8300, the only one of my many PCs that I’ve kept after my transition to the Mac. I must say that I was delighted to … Continue reading →

Recently I undertook to do something I’ve never done before, which was to watch an entire TV series from beginning to end as a project. Of course I couldn’t do this in one sitting, mind you, but over a period … Continue reading →

Sebastian Bach once cadenced with a mixed-mode flat submediant, For him a chord so wild and free was just the right ingredient. But Dittersdorf, a fellow much more mellow and obedient, Wrote mostly chords like I and V, quite boring … Continue reading →

I look back now at the past semester, the SF Conservatory’s first in the new building on Oak Street. I’ve gone through some mental shifts about this new building. First I was excited. Then I was awed. Then I was … Continue reading →

I make little secret that I’m a born-again Mac guy; I started in the Mac world, moved to Windows about 1994, and then in 2004 made the move back to Apple-land, and I’m not going back. Sometimes it’s those little … Continue reading →

So I’ve declared myself a PowerPoint-free zone at long last. I’ve used PowerPoint a LOT — it has been my primary tool for putting together my presentations for my course at UC Berkeley as well as doing other presentations of … Continue reading →

A fellow Dharma practitioner and I were having breakfast together recently, and during the discussion we decided to nail down what the Buddhist equivalent of a “fatwa” would be. We decided that it would be a “metwa” — i.e., “metta” … Continue reading →

Today marked the beginning of teaching in the new Conservatory building. I got my office (partly) set up, am getting to know the building, photocopied exams for the exams on Thursday, and in general am getting more and more comfortable … Continue reading →

So I’m having a simple mid-week summer day without much on my schedule save lunch in San Rafael with the new development director at Spirit Rock, my Buddhist temple. But while I’m having this nice little day, there’s a big … Continue reading →

I’ve been on a wholesale, wholehearted Stravinsky kick of late, drenching myself in Stravinsky recordings, scores, books, etc. I’m almost finished with Stephen Walsh’s two-volume biography, I’ve gone through most of those entertaining-but-unreliable Stravinsky/Craft “Conversation” books, done quite a lot … Continue reading →