The Boston Early Music Festival tried the college campus route a few years ago - as an alternative to the Park Plaza, stuffy carpeted hotel meeting rms with bad acoustics for the early keyboards, which benefit from a live room, etc. The univ class rooms were acoustically great but guess what? Many complained it was all not 'fancy' enough - and this was Harvard! And there was not a very good venue for the large exhibit hall. Their concert venues have to be scattered all over the city anyhow, that's always a problem. But foodwise!Great places all over. well, we can't have everything. It's smaller covention, and aimed at the public as well. There are obvious advantages of convention centers - they have all those spaces, all together. And a mid-summer convention needs airconditioning, which few campuses have much of even now. We,, Banff probably doesn't need a-c - sounds great. Margaret Hood
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