Seeing with the Ears…Hearing with the Eyes

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Perhaps it was discovering Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition when we were just married, which marked the beginning of our life-long journeys to explore ways the senses are woven together. Poor and in graduate school, we had our priorities straight - buy music first, furniture follows. Mussorgsky began his composition visually rather than with sound. A friend's drawings and watercolors led him to compose the work we fell in love with. In this composition, Mussorgsky depicts a walk through … [Read more...]