In honour of IAML 2012, McGill University is showcasing its music collections. We invite IAML 2012 attendees to explore!
(1) The Marvin Duchow Music Library, which serves the Schulich School of Music and other faculties of McGill University as well as the Montreal music community, is one of the most important academic music collections in Canada. Located on 3 floors of the New Music Building (527 Sherbrooke St. W.), the Music Library collects a wide array of scores and parts, recordings, music literature, electronic resources, and technology that responds to the research and performance demands of the School’s programmes: classical performance, jazz studies, musicology, music theory, music technology, composition, sound recording, and music education, not to mention interdisciplinary studies in both humanities and science disciplines.
The Music Library invites IAML attendees to visit during the conference. The Library is open 7 days a week according to the schedule posted online. A 20-minute guided tour will be offered daily from Monday, July 23, to Friday, July 27, at 1:30. Please present yourself at the 3rd-floor offices opposite the entrance to the Library.
While visiting, make sure to see the Library’s exhibition celebrating the recent publication of Weinzweig: Essays on His Life and Music, a book dedicated to one of Canada’s most prominent 20th-century composers, John Weinzweig. The collection was edited by McGill professor and composer Brian Cherney and composer John Beckwith, whose works will be performed in the Tuesday lunchtime concert. The exhibition was created by IAML attendee Houman Behzadi.
(2) 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.
Brian McMillan
Music Liaison Librarian
Marvin Duchow Music Library
McGill University