CAFÉ À PROPOS

The Café à propos is where everyone gets together! Starting with a programmed concert, the café inspires musicians to relax after a long day and a drink or two. Improvising with, learning from & meeting with the artists and festival goers.

300, rue Notre-Dame est

CONCERTS AT THE CAFÉ

Starting at 10:30PM June 24th to June 27th.

CONFERENCES

Friday, June 25 2010
10h-19h Informal talks & music at the Café À Propos

Making Publics (MaPs) researchers, graduates and students from the Schulich School of Music invite Festival-goers to a day of music & fascinating talks about the creation of new publics in the late Renaissance, an era of unprecedented scientific advancement and incomparable artistic achievement.

10h “Music and Publics”; post-graduate students from the Schulich School of Music (J. Hatter, D. Donnelly, R. Chiu; mod. J. Cumming, Assoc. Prof. of Music and MaPs co-investigator)

12h “Kepler, Galileo & the Dance of the Heavenly Spheres: globes & cosmology”; L. Cormack

14h “Baroque music, improvisation & the law”; E. Söderström (viola de gamba), D. Menderson (MaPs)

15h30 "Venice: Art, music, and literary publics"; MaPs’ B.Wilson, J. Cumming, W. Folkerth, M. Eberhart

17h “Shakespeare’s music”; P. Yachnin