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Do You Dream in Color?

Admission is free. Reservations required. RSVP at the links below beginning Tuesday, February 14, at 9 a.m.

USC Students: To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserveDreamTransport.php?RSVPEvtCode=201

USC Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=208

General Public: To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserveGeneral_Multi.php?RSVPEvtCode=201

Transportation will be provided for USC students. Buses will depart USC at 6 p.m. and return to campus at 9:30 p.m. If you would like to use the provided transportation, you must make a reservation.

A fascinating evening of performance and conversation will explore issues raised by blindness. The event will feature the West Coast premiere of Do You Dream in Color?, composed by Bruce Adolphe, sung by blind mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin, who is also the author of the text, and accompanied by acclaimed pianist Marija Stroke. Following the performance, Rubin and Adolphe will participate in a conversation with USC University Professor and neuroscientist Antonio Damasio and Mark Humayun, a distinguished professor of ophthalmology at USC and pioneer of retinal transplants.

About the Artists and Speakers

Laurie Rubin has been praised by the New York Times for her “compelling artistry” and “communicative power.” The Los Angeles Times wrote that “Rubin seems to have an especially acute intuition about the power and subtleties of sound” and is a “charismatic, multi-textured performer.”

Recently named composer-in-residence at the USC Brain and Creativity Institute, Bruce Adolphe has composed music for Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Sylvia McNair, the Beaux Arts Trio, the Brentano String Quartet, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Miami Quartet, Chicago Chamber Musicians and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Pianist Marija Stroke has performed throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Russia and Hong Kong, in chamber-music festivals and in solo performances.

Antonio Damasio is University Professor and David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience and director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC. Damasio has made seminal contributions to the understanding of how the brain generates mind and behavior and described his discoveries in books such as Descartes’ Error and Looking for Spinoza. Damasio’s newest book is Self Comes to Mind. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Honda Prize and the Asturias Prize in Science and Technology.

Dr. Mark Humayun is a professor of ophthalmology at the Doheny Eye Institute and a leader in the treatment of the most challenging eye diseases through advanced engineering. Dr. Humayun is focused on developing therapies for retinal degenerations, macular degenerations, retinovascular diseases, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma.

Organized by Antonio Damasio (Neuroscience). Co-sponsored by Classical KUSC.

For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu

Location: AT&T Center Theatre, 1150 South Olive Street, Los Angeles

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Daria Yudacufski