Songs in the Earth and Air

Visions and Voices: The USC Arts & Humanities Initiative

Thursday, October 15, 2009 : 7:30pm

University Park Campus
USC Fisher Museum of Art

Free

Image: Victor Raphael and Clayton Spada


Accompanying a Fisher Museum show, pianist Victoria Kirsch and soprano Julie Makerov celebrate Victor Raphael’s artistic vision.

The USC Fisher Museum of Art presents Victor Raphael: Travels and Wanderings 1979–2009, an exhibition featuring 30 years’ worth of paintings, Polaroids, videos and works using interactive technologies.

In conjunction with the exhibit, pianist Victoria Kirsch and soprano Julie Makerov present a Raphael-inspired concert. They will perform a selection of art songs, operatic excerpts and readings that reflect terrestrial and cosmic travels and wanderings, conjuring images of the sun, moon, stars, planets, earth and water.

The program will also feature compositions that combine acoustic and electronic sounds, as well as vocal improvisations that utilize the museum’s live acoustical space.

Organized by the USC Fisher Museum of Art. Co-sponsored by the USC Thornton School of Music and Grand Performances.