CORVALLIS — Two Oregon State University professors will be featured in the first performance of the Corvallis Arts Center 2008 Readers Series at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, at The Arts Center, 700 SW Madison. Admission is $10, Arts Center members are admitted free.

Kathleen Dean Moore, professor of philosophy, and Rachelle McCabe, director of piano studies, will present “Duets: The Music of Words.” Moore and McCabe will explore the ways that music and the written word speak to each other and combine to bring powerful results.

A published author and the founding director of the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word, Moore’s current work is in the areas of environmental ethics, philosophy and nature. She is co-editor of a forthcoming collection of articles about Rachel Carson’s legacy and is the co-editor of “How It Is: A Native American Philosophy,” the collected papers of the late Viola Cordova.

McCabe, a concert pianist and professor of music, has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Southeast Asia and has been heard on NPR’s “Performance Today,” the CBC and PBS television. A frequent soloist with the Corvallis-OSU Symphony, McCabe has recently performed concerti of Schumann, Ravel, Poulenc and Beethoven.

Other performances in the 2008 Readers Series are:

7 p.m. Friday, March 21: Peg Elliot Mayo, “Irish Tales & Coast Range Ramblings” and 7 p.m. Friday, May 20: Publication Celebration of Poetry by Franz Dolp.

For more information, call 754-1551 or see www.theartscenter.net.