Yousuf Karsh: The Hero of a Thousand Faces Through Words and Music September 30, 2010

Pianist Victoria Kirsch, mezzo-soprano Cynthia Jansen and bass-baritone Cedric Berry present a concert combining music and spoken word.

Join us for a festival of music and films presented in conjunction with the exhibit Yousuf Karsh: Regarding Heroes, on display at the USC Fisher Museum of Art from August 19 through November 23. The exhibition celebrates the centenary of the birth of Yousuf Karsh, one of our greatest portrait photographers, whose portrait subjects include such political, social and literary figures as Nelson Mandela, Audrey Hepburn, Winston Churchill and Robert Frost.

Pianist Victoria Kirsch and fellow USC alumni mezzo-soprano Cynthia Jansen and bass-baritone Cedric Berry, along with a USC-affiliated actor, will present a concert celebrating the portrait subjects featured in the exhibition. Kirsch’s repertoire will focus on themes from the lives of the figures portrayed on the Fischer Museum’s walls.

A reception will follow.

Official Website: http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/32/event/877495