Author Archives: Scott Foglesong
January Program Notes – Richard Egarr: Masters of the English Baroque
There’s an old Chinese curse that goes: may you live in interesting times. Such was the lot of the 17th-century...
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December Program Notes: Bach’s Mass in B Minor
Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach on March 21, 1685...
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November Program Notes: Marion Verbruggen & the Italian Baroque Recorder
Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto Grosso in F major, Op. 6 No. 2 Concerto Grosso in D major, Op. 6 No. 4...
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October Program Notes: Arias for Farinelli
Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688–1758) Concerto for Two Flutes, Two Oboes and Two Bassoons in D Minor, FWV L:d7 Johann Friedrich...
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September Program Notes: Mozart & Haydn: A Tale of Two Cities
Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D Major, K. 504 “Prague” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born 1756 in Salzburg, left humanity a...
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April Program Notes: Haydn’s Creation
Franz Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau, Austria on March 31, 1732. By age 29 he had entered service to...
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Chamber Music Program Notes: Mozart with Zheng Cao
In his mere thirty-five years, Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart enriched humanity with a king’s ransom of musical treasures. Born...
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March Program Notes – Zheng Cao: The Life of a Singer
Jean-Féry Rebel: Les Caractères de la Danse Born in Paris on April 18, 1666 to a century-spanning musical dynasty, Jean-Féry...
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February Program Notes: Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 1 and Hummel’s Concerto for Keyed Trumpet
Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Trumpet Concerto in E Major, S. 49 Johann Nepomuk Hummel was born in Pressburg, Hungary (now Bratislava,...
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January Chamber Concert Program Notes: Viva Vivaldi!
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born on March 4, 1678 in Venice, where he was ordained as a priest in 1703....
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January Program Notes: David Daniels
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1787) Concerto for Three Horns and Violin in D major, TWV 54:D2 Suite in F major, TWV...
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December Program Notes: Handel’s Messiah
Primo le parole, poi la musica: first the words, then the music. Ask a roomful of people to identify the...
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Goldberg Variations: Ralph
Shortly after arriving at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1975 as a piano major, I fell under the...
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Contemplating Messiah
It's an honor to write on Messiah. Being one of a multitude of writers to take on Handel's perennial hit doesn't dilute the privilege one bit; if anything, it enhances the experience.
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November Program Notes: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 11 in B-flat Major In an era of harried composers whose livelihoods...
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April Program Notes: Alexander’s Feast, or The Power of Music