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"Vision Through Sounds" Explores Joaquín Rodrigo's Life and Works for Solo Piano

Sep. 20, 2023

Dr. Dena Kay Jones, Professor of Music (Piano/Music) at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) presented "Vision Through Sounds," an immersive presentation on the life and solo piano works of Joaquín Rodrigo on September 6at the Eighth International Conference on Communication & Media Studies at Complutense University in Madrid.

"Vision Through Sounds" takes the Dr. Jones's expertise, research, and performance experiences– which are based on the life and solo piano music of blind Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo–to audience members, who have the option of removing their sight while participating. Dr. Dena Kay Jones invites those in attendance to use her multimedia presentation to examine their trust in themselves and in the sighted world where most of us live. Set in a lecture format, the session includes dissemination of research, visual guides (photos and audio/video), recorded music, and if possible, live piano performance excerpts. In addition to a select bibliography of Dr. Jones’s collected citations, she offers a blindfold, encouraging participants to go “under occlusion” and listen from a completely different perspective. The program, which has been deemed “an auditory feast,” as well as a “challenging introspective,” has altered the way people perceive themselves and other–especially in the realms of vision and sound. 

Dr. Jones will present "Vision Through Sounds" again on September 23 at the McKinney Theatre at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California.

Listen to Dr. Dena Kay Jones perform Rodrigo's A l’ombre de Torre Bermeja:

Joaquín Rodrigo/A l’ombre de Torre Bermeja/Dena Kay Jones, piano


To learn more about Joaquín Rodrigo, visit joaquin-rodrigo.com and schott-music.com. 

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