CLU concert to blend music, physiology
Original music interprets body's inner workings

A physiologist and musician will perform an original composition that translates the body's inner workings into music at 1 p.m. Sun., Sept. 9 at California Lutheran University's Samuelson Chapel, 60 W. Olsen Road, Thousand Oaks.

Hector Rasgado-Flores, PhD, a composer and pianist, will perform "Body Notes: A Musical Interpretation of Human Physiology" with CLU faculty cellist Joyce Geeting, DMA.

Geeting and harpist Dan Levitan, of the San Francisco Bay area, will also perform Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's "Sonata" and Granville Bantock's "Hamabdil."

Rasgado-Flores, a professor at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in Chicago, studied at the Royal School of Music in London and the National School of Music in Mexico City.

He composed "Body Notes" to illustrate the functioning of the human body, from raging hormones to death.

One movement depicts the complex process by which molecules form membranes. A section titled "Pumping Iron" is devoted to the human heart, from its intricate rhythms to the feelings of love associated with it. "Movement's Movement" follows a day in the life of a ballerina's skeletal muscles.

Rasgado-Flores and Geeting will travel in the United States and to Austria, Germany, Mexico, Japan and Venezuela later this fall to perform "Body Notes." CLU's Artists and Speakers Series is sponsoring the chamber music concert. Donations will be accepted.

For more information, call CLU's Music Department at (805) 493-3305.