Montreal Gazette - Concert to benefit McGill music room
"Oh, it's terrible," Gordon Foote, interim dean of the Schulich School of Music, said of the subterranean Music Multimedia Room at the corner of Sherbrooke and Aylmer Sts. By which he meant that it is wonderful.
The MMR is an excellent recording studio for the MSO and other classical units that can do with a bit of reverberation. For the high-powered jazz ensembles that Foote conducts, the room requires acoustic adjustments that are not available in its current unfinished state.
Raising money to make the MMR the full-service facility it was intended to be - with acoustic panels, a hardwood floor and outfitted control room - is the main purpose of Laudatoria, a concert Saturday night in the familiar McGill confines of Pollack Hall. Another aim is to honour Don McLean, the outgoing music dean who masterminded the MMR, the new building above it, and the expansion of music studies at McGill into various non-traditional realms.
This is a benefit event. The freight is $100 - or more, depending on whether you want dinner beforehand and/or a cocktail afterward in the MMR. A tax receipt is provided.
