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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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Revisiting a gramophone masterpiece

The labels have been releasing a steady stream of Haydn recordings in honor of the 200th anniversary of the beloved Austrian master's death. (Our next...
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Composers at the wheel

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"You play just like a composer!" Clifford Curzon once sniped to my friend, the composer David Conte. Curzon intended it, and David...
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Elgar's dream journey

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October 3, 1900 witnessed one of music history's most unfortunate premiere performances, ranking right up there with the opening-night fiasco of The...
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The other prodigy

Let’s play free-association. I say: “prodigy.” You probably say: “Mozart.” Good answer. Wolfgang was most indubitably a...
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The orchestra of brotherly love

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The December 2008 issue of Gramophone featured an article ranking the top twenty of the world's orchestras. Naturally, such critical rankings are...
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Those 50, or maybe 5000, basic pieces

This morning I have been listening to some of the earliest recordings of Bartók's (left) Concerto for Orchestra — Koussevitzky's 1944...
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An earthsong for everyone

As the San Francisco Symphony releases Das Lied von der Erde, the next-to-last installment in the complete Mahler series, I'm moved to think about the...
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Some favorites from the S.F. Symphony discography

This is the eighth, and final (at long last...) installment in a series of articles covering the San Francisco...
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MTT and the banquet years at the S.F. Symphony

We now reach the present day and Michael Tilson Thomas's extensive recordings, the seventh article of a series of...
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Odds 'n' ends of the S.F. Symphony discography

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We now reach the sixth of a series of articles devoted to the San Francisco Symphony's long discography. (I had...
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