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Scott Foglesong is Chair of Music Theory and Musicianship at the San Francisco Conservatory, where he has been on the faculty since 1978. He also teaches at UC Berkeley, and contributes program notes and gives “Inside Music” lectures for the San Francisco Symphony.

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Half a fairy

On the evening of Saturday, November 25, 1882 Arthur Sullivan took his bows with William Gilbert for another great success in the pair's series of...
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Heavenly length

On January 6, 1839 Robert Schumann wrote from Vienna to the publishing firm of Breitkopf & Hartel: Several days ago I visited Franz Schubert's...
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That Nordic chill

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Few pieces in the symphonic repertory carry the chill factor of the Sibelius Fourth. From its ominous, tritone-laced opening through the finality of...
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Haydn's Sinfonia concertante for London

Joseph Haydn had every reason to thank providence for his elevated position in musical life. His nearly three-decade service to the Esterházy...
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Mozart's Gran Partita at the SFS

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Shortly after moving to Vienna in 1781 Mozart met the clarinetist Anton Stadler (pictured in the anonymous silhouette to the left), who became a close...
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The Orff question

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Any discussion of Carmina Burana heads inexorably towards the question of Carl Orff’s ties to the Third Reich. With that question comes the...
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You drunken sot

Now, don’t you go taking the article’s title personally; I don’t mean you. The title refers to the song “You drunken...
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Mozart and the piano concerto

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Wolfgang Mozart wrote comfortably in all genres, but two in particular inspired him to some of his greatest achievements: the opera, and the piano...
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Pianist and maestro at the SF Symphony

As I write this, I’m listening to Yevgeny Sudbin play the Scriabin Piano Sonata No. 2, one of the most immediately appealing of the...
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Ernest Bloch, man of the world

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Swiss-American composer Ernest Bloch has been typecast, and that's a darn shame. When people think about Bloch (if they do), the tendency is to...
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