HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL RECORDING OF THIS EVENT: https://youtu.be/64u2Hi05EQ8

In 1839, Wagner’s fled Riga on the Thetis, a smuggler’s ship. Richard and Minna dreamed of getting to Paris. Riga’s farewell to them was an enormous sea storm. It was this storm that the composer commemorated later in the famous overture to the Der fliegende Holländer. Using Wagner’s own writings and music, Professor Foglesong will trace the route they took, followed by a dissection of the overture’s themes and orchestration.

Scott Foglesong is a pianist, musician, teacher, writer, cat-lover, music history devotée, occasional computer geek and sometime programmer. In addition to San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Foglesong teaches in the Fall Freshman program at UC Berkeley and the Fromm Institute at the University of San Francisco.