Spring 2009 Meeting
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General Information
Date: Saturday, 25 April 2009
Hosted by Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music in Berea, Ohio
Local Arrangements: Michael Strasser <mstassse@bw.edu>
Call for Papers

Registration
As always, registration for Chapter meetings is free to members in good standing--just fill out a registration form and pick up a nametag at the registration table outside the meeting room. You may join or renew your membership by paying annual dues to the Chapter treasurer at this time. Visit our membership and dues pages for more information.

Meeting Site
The meeting will be held in Rm. 215 of Kamm Hall on the campus of Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. (NOTE: Kamm Hall is the home of our business school. It is NOT the Conservatory.)

Accommodations
There are a number of hotels within a 10-minute drive of both the Baldwin-Wallace campus and Cleveland Hopkins Airport. Some of these offer complimentary transportation to and from the airport, and a few offer transportation to the B-W campus. (Unfortunately, none of these are within comfortable walking distance.) For a list, please go to http://www.bw.edu/resources/hotels/.

Travel
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (Code: CLE) is a Continental Airlines hub and is served by most national carriers. It is located about 5-10 minutes away from the B-W campus. As mentioned above, many local hotels offer free shuttle service to and from the airport.

Driving
For driving directions to the B-W campus from any direction and, specifically, to Kamm Hall, please go to http://www.bw.edu/quickfacts/directions/kamm/. You will also find there a link to a printable campus map.

Parking
As noted on the driving directions, you will find plenty of convenient parking in the large Kamm-Bonds lot.

RIEMENSCHNEIDER BACH INSTITUTE
Baldwin-Wallace College is home to the Riemenscheider Bach Institute, one of the most important centers for Bach research in North America. Among the Institute’s holdings are original manuscripts in Bach’s hand and those of several of his Leipzig copyists, early printed editions of Bach’s music, and significant later editions, such as the Bach anthology once owned by Clara Schumann and containing annotations by both Clara and Robert Schumann as well as Johannes Brahms. During our lunch break on Saturday, Dr. Mel Unger and his staff have graciously offered to open the RBI and put several of its treasures on display. For more information on the RBI and its holdings, please go to: www.bw.edu/academics/libraries/bach/.

Cultural Events
The center of Cleveland’s cultural life is University Circle, which is about a 45-minute drive from the B-W campus. (Maps and driving directions will be available at the meeting.) There you will find both Severance Hall, the beautiful art deco home of the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Cleveland Art Museum.

• Cleveland Orchestra – On Saturday, April 25, the orchestra is scheduled to perform Berlioz, Overture to Beatrice and Benedict; Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503 (Mitsuko Uchida); and Sibelius, Symphony No. 2. The orchestra will be under the direction of guest conductor Sir Colin Davis. There is a limited number of tickets still available and we have arranged with the orchestra to hold a block of tickets which will be offered to conference attendees at a 15% discount. You may purchase main floor tickets for $55.25 each or balcony tickets for $44.20 each. To order tickets, please contact Kathy Pahr at the Cleveland Orchestra: 216/231-7463 or kpahr@clevelandorchestra.com.
  
  
• Cleveland Art Museum – The art museum is in the midst of a major renovation and a large portion of the collection is inaccessible at this time. However, the upper floors of the original 1919 building were reopened this past summer and contain the museum’s splendid holdings in European art from 1600-1870 and American art from 1700-1925, as well as the magnificent and very popular armor court, featuring arms and armor from the middle ages through the 17th century. There will be two special expositions underway during the time of the meeting: “Art and Power in the Central African Savannah” – an exhibition of some 60 African masks and sculptures; “Friedlander” – an exhibition of some 350 images by the American photographer Lee Friedlander. Admission to both exhibitions (and the museum itself) is free. Please go to http://www.cma.org/ for further information. Click on the “Plan your visit” link for a detailed listing of which galleries are currently open.

Weather
Late April is usually fairly pleasant in Cleveland but we can have fairly wild swings in temperature, precipitation type and amount, etc. It is not unheard of for us to have a last fleeting gasp of winter weather (including snow!) in April, thus it is very difficult to predict with any accuracy what SEASON you will encounter at that time (much less what the weather will be), so please check the extended forecast a few days before the meeting.

Local Arrangements
Please extend our sincere thanks to Professor Michael Strasser of Baldwin-Wallace for his hospitality.

Further details about the Spring meeting will be added as they become available.

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