October 15th, 2008
Jenny Bilfield, artistic and executive director of Lively Arts (and a composer herself), attended a Minneapolis preview of Songs of Ascension last June. “Monk doesn’t utilize words as a narrative anchor, but rather employs the full range of the voice—overtones, high range for men, low range for women, and everything in between—to create the sensation of voices rising,” Bilfield said.
Bilfield called Monk “quite a remarkable artist—an important person representing the way creative people see themselves synthesizing forms, challenging notions of delineation.”
The work was commissioned for Stanford Lively Arts by Van and Eddi Van Auken in honor of the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation, Transatlantic Arts Consortium (a partnership between the California Institute of the Arts, Dartington Plus and Idyllwild Arts) and the Walker Arts Center of Minneapolis.
October 15th, 2008
Commissioned by Stanford Lively Arts, Songs of Ascension is the latest in a long line of major works for an ensemble of voices and instruments by MacArthur “Genius Award” recipient Meredith Monk. Fusing movement, vocalization, and imagery into an organic and powerfully communicative whole, Monk explores musical and spatial motifs that highlight rising sound and movement to convey the spiritual or otherworldly. With the architecture of a cathedral or tower as a metaphor, and historical grounding in the devotional practices and rituals that evoke ascension, Monk draws inspiration in the processionals of Buddhist stupas, Moses’ journey up the 4000 steps of Mt. Sinai, and the Tawaf around the Ka’Bah in Islam. Monk is joined by her own ensemble plus multimedia artist and fellow MacArthur honoree Ann Hamilton, a string quartet directed by the genre-weaving violinist and Ethel co-founder Todd Reynolds, and members of the Pacific Mozart Ensemble.
October 14th, 2008
Richard Bloch, a founder of Kansas City, Mo.-based H&R Block Inc., was diagnosed in 1978 with terminal lung cancer but survived until 2004, when he died of heart failure.
Annette Bloch said she hoped the donation would help get the Kansas Cancer Center designated as a National Cancer Institute. The cancer center, which is blended with the hospital’s cancer program, would then be able to attract more grants, clinical trials and research programs.
October 13th, 2008
The intersection of Alta Vista Drive, Industrial Ave, and Riverside Drive is a lot more beautiful now that the 24th Cancer Survivors Park is located there.
In a touching ceremony, the park officially opened on 24 September, the day proclaimed as National Cancer Survivors Day in Ottawa. Worldwide Cancer Survivors Day is the first Sunday of June.
October 12th, 2008
Upstate runners and walkers will be able to participate in an event that will benefit thousands of people who have been diagnosed with lung cancer.
The Caine Halter Lungs For Life 5K run-walk and one mile fun run will be held on November 8 at the YMCA of Greenville-Caine Halter Branch, located at 721 Cleveland Street in downtown Greenville. The event is held in honor of Caine Halter, an active member of the upstate community and President of Coldwell Banker Commercial Caine.
October 8th, 2008
With the abundance of pink ribbons everywhere, most everyone knows that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The disease is pervasive: One in eight women in their lifetime will be diagnosed with breast cancer.
But there is another cancer that is a greater threat to women’s lives. Lung cancer is by far the leading cause of cancer deaths among both men and women, according to the National Cancer Institute. It kills more Americans each year than breast, prostate, colorectal and pancreatic cancers combined. Yet, lung cancer only receives a fraction of research funding compared to other cancers. In 2007, the NCI invested less than 5 percent of its $4.8-billion budget into lung cancer research.
October 6th, 2008
St. Joseph-St. Elizabeth School Principal Lois Widner began volunteering her students five years ago in memory of her parents.
Both of Widner’s parents died of lung cancer. So when she assumed the role of principal at St. Joseph-St. Elizabeth, Widner volunteered her students to help at Kroger Scott’s Cancer Day and continued that effort Wednesday.
October 4th, 2008
The Knack`s Doug Fieger is battling through chemotherapy at the moment to fight his battle with cancer.
“It’s all related to my original lung cancer,” Doug tells Undercover News. “It metastasized to my brain and sent microscopic cells into my body that have, over time, been collected by my lymph system. These are very pernicious and hard to treat”.
September 29th, 2008
Most people find it awkward when first talking with a friend or acquaintance that has just been diagnosed with cancer. Even though nearly everyone is well intentioned, many say things that hurt or mystify more than they comfort.
September 29th, 2008
The Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute (ALCMI) today announced the appointment of Steven W. Young to the position of president. In this role, Young will develop organizational strategy and provide leadership, vision, and direction. Tony Addario, formerly the President of ALCMI, has assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer.
“Mr. Young has exceptional experience in establishing and directing disease-centric pre-clinical and clinical discovery, and drug development models in collaboration with investigators in the academic, community and biopharmaceutical settings,” said Addario. “His appointment represents precisely the kind of opportunity to jumpstart research that led us to establish the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation (BJALCF) in 2006 and ALCMI in 2008.”
