Welcome to Montreal! Bienvenue à Montréal !
We are very happy to be hosting over 300 of you this week.
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For all events, including the evening events, please remember to wear your name badge, because this acts as your ticket, except for the Wednesday afternoon tours and the Friday night banquet, where you need to have tickets. For the evening events if anyone wishes to purchase extra tickets for friends, family or collegues, they are available. Ask at the registration desk for more details.
If you want to make dinner plans after the concerts in the evenings, know that both concerts are scheduled for one hour each. The restaurant list is on our conference website with links to the restaurant websites, if you wish to get details to make any dinner reservations in advance.
Immediately after this plenary the exhibits will open. We wish to thank the wonderful support of our sponsors and exhibitors. Since we printed the program Harrassowitz became a Silver Sponsor, so I wish to thank them and all of our Silver and Gold Sponsors. We have added a couple news exhibitor, too, since the program was printed. They are IPCI-Canada and the Packard Humanities Institute: C.P.E. Bach Complete Works. This morning we want to thank Library Ideas for their support of the coffee/tea break happening during the opening of the exhibits.
During this first coffee/tea break there will be "coffee corner for public librarians", so there will be a table identified in the foyer for this event.
Dr. Richard Virr and the staff of McGill’s Rare Books and Special Collections department (Humanities and Social Sciences Library, 3459 McTavish, directly opposite the Centre Mont-Royal) have prepared an exhibition of music-related documents in its collection. Highlights include selections from 19th-century Canadian sheet music; Montreal concert programmes (1786-1945); scores from the music library of Pauline Donalda (1882-1970), a Montreal soprano who sang with great success in London, Paris, New York, and Brussels; and documents from McGill’s Charles Burney collection. The exhibition is displayed in the main floor lobby of the McLennan Library building of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library. Click here for more details about visiting the McGill Library.
Directions to this evening's reception at the BAnQ are on the conference web site. The entrance to the reception is on Berri Street towards the north end of the building, next to a door labeled “Entrée du personnel/stationnement”. For those who wish to travel as a group, volunteers will meet you in the Level 1 foyer of the conference centre, just inside the Sherbrooke Street entrance, at 6:00.
Our Volunteers and staff at the Registration Desk are here to help you. Please let them know if you have any questions.