Last week we journeyed to the annual conference for the Society for Music Theory (SMT) in Montreal, Quebec. This conference is always a big deal! It's a time to see friends from across the country, rub shoulders with the bigwigs in our field, and engage in deep, meaningful conservations about music that don't involve how to teach undergraduate ear training!
More importantly, this year Brian was a conference presenter! It was a major step in is career, and he looked like a pro doing it! (I hope you'll notice in the pictures that his equally talented wife dressed him to impress . . . lookin' good, Bry! Thanks for the blazer, Mama Lindy.)
As you may have heard, the weekend didn't begin well. We blew a tire just outside of Manhattan, with 320 miles yet to go. Oh yeah, and it was raining. Oh yeah, and it was 8 o'clock at NIGHT! Oh yeah, and it happened along a dangerous curve on the interstate, where there was virtually no shoulder to pull over. But like a teamster from a Nascar pit crew, Brian replaced the tire with the spare in record timing! Whew! And we were off (again) to Montreal . . . going 50mph.
We arrived at our friend, Christa's apartment at 4:30am, but apparently Christa is a bit of an insomniac . . . so, I guess we arrived on time. Luckily we were able to sleep in before Brian's big presentation.
At the conference we met up with our longtime Cincinnati friend, Breighan. Miss Breighan now lives in South Bend, Indiana, so it was a tremendous treat to spend time with her in Montreal.
As to be expected, Breighan brought along her cuddly little stuffed puppy, affectionately known as "Puppy." Too bad we forgot to bring Gus, our equally cute stuffed bear son.
Another treat? Dr. Brett(0) Clement! Another Cincy friend, Bretto recently finished his Ph.D. at UC and is now teaching at Stephen F. Austin in Texas! Yee haw, Brett. (This is a bad picture, but here he is, chilling in the hotel room.)
See more highlights from our trip in the following post.
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