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October 12, 2017 the Independent Newspaper of the University of Iowa Community Since 1868 Daily-Iowan.Com 50¢ The Daily Iowan THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2017 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 DAILY-IOWAN.COM 50¢ News Partnership allows UIHC boosts To Know mammogram INSIDE: 80HOURS inmates to train dogs The weekend in arts & entertainment Thursday, October 12, 2017 Opera as examinations supernatural thriller The Medium, a “Tragedy in Two Acts” is an eerie opera that promises to stay with the audiences long after the curtain comes down. BY CLAIRE DIETZ | [email protected] Three parents gather in a eerie, cluttered attic American opera, said he thought it was important different colors … Often, the piece is done with a pi- apartment, holding hands at a table. They are here to that the students be exposed to this influential com- ano because it is a smaller piece, but adding the or- hopefully communicate with the spirits of their de- poser. chestra is adding a whole other color, a whole other UIHC is offering walk-in ceased kids. A medium is their only hope of having “[Menotti] was really innovative,” he said. “He was character to the piece. So I love having the full orches- the opportunity to talk with them. The only problem? the first to write an opera exclusively for radio, the tration, which isn’t always the case.” The medium is a fake. first to write one exclusively for television back in the San Francisco Classical Voice described the opera in The Medium, a “Tragedy in Two Acts,” is being pro- ’50s and ’60s and he was breaking ground in many a 2015 article titled “Menotti’s The Medium Shows duced by the Opera Department of the School of Mu- important ways.” Power in Silence” through the use of silence, which sic, and it will begin its run at 7:30 p.m. today and For Theisen, it was about bringing a much more is prominently seen in the character Toby, a mute continue through Oct. 15 at the Coralville Center for streamlined storytelling to opera audiences, as op- boy who lives with Madame Flora and her daughter the Performing Arts, 1301 Fifth St. posed to the sometimes-loftier older operas. A large Monica. The opera was written by Gian Carlo Menotti and portion of the accessibility was due to its being in “Silence is music’s secret weapon,” the article follows the story of a medium and her two kids, who English. said. “The notes unplayed or sung — in rests, phrase help her run her operation. That involves her pre- “It’s really accessible to the audience,” he said. endings, rubatos stretched to transparent thinness tending to be the titular medium and manipulating “There certainly are these grander versions, but this — can amplify and intensify anything around them. mammograms daily to detect parents of deceased children in order to make her is what you call a chamber opera. It’s a very small, in- What isn’t there holds the power to transform what money. When the parents come, she has her own kids timate opera, it’s very theatrical. It’s so much more is … Everything that happens in this brilliantly per- pretend to be the kids’ ghosts. The plan works until about the storytelling … Many pieces that have been verse piece pivots around Toby’s febrile, tragic still- the medium actually hears ghosts, and chaos ensues. written in the past 50 years are based on classics, ness.” The show had its world première at the Brader whether American or international.” Ultimately, the opera is about the supernatural and Matthews Theater at Columbia University on May 8, The conductor of the chamber orchestra behind what happens when 1946. Monica was played Evelyn Keller, Leo Coleman the music of the production said every opera presents people encounter the EVENT INFO as Toby, and Madame Flora played by Claramae Turn- unique challenges for conductors. limits of their beliefs er. “They combine concerns for actors’ vocal produc- and are introduced to Bill Theisen directed the local production, with tion with their dramatic staging, which requires a the unfamiliar. It is • When: 7:30 p.m. Friday William LaRue Jones as the conductor. Theisen want- conductor to execute accurate timing for character described by the com- ed to bring the production to Iowa so the audiences portrayal and correct music tempos,” Jones said. poser himself as a “su- breast cancer at an early stage. would become more familiar with the work of Menot- While including the orchestra in the production pernatural opera expe- • Where: Coralville Center for ti. He was an Italian-American composer and libret- (some productions only use a piano as accompani- rience,” a combination Pewrforming Arts, 1301 Fifth St tist best known for *Amahl and the Night Visitors, * ment) is a challenge for both the director and the con- of a ghost story and a which is often performed around Christmas. It was ductor, it ultimately pays off in the final productions. supernatural thriller. the first televised opera in America in 1951. “Adding the orchestra in is like adding another One that promises to • Cost: $5-$20 Theisen, an advocate for 20th- and 21st-century character,” Theisen said. “It really brings in a lot of haunt those who see it. Go to daily-iowan.com to see the full story. BY JORDAN PROCHNOW [email protected] October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is advertising walk-in mammography services offered On the web On the air Events calendar EerieGet updates about local arts & operaTune in to KRUI 89.7 FM at 5 p.m. on Wantcomes your event to be printed in The Daily Iowan to entertainment events on Twitter Thursdays to hear about this weekend and included in our online calendar? To submit a Coralville@DailyIowanArts. in arts & entertainment. listing, visit dailyiowan.com/pages/calendarsubmit. daily at its River Landing location and the The Medium, produced by Breast Imaging Center of Excellence. the Opera Department Mammography, a screening done to of the School of Music, show abnormalities in breast tissue, al- will run through Oct. 15 at lows for an earlier detection of cancerous the Coralville Center for masses to receive treatment. the Performing Arts. The To provide patients with more conve- opera follows the story of a nience and to raise awareness for the need medium and her kids, who for mammograms, the options to schedule help her run an operation in services ahead of time or come in at one’s order to make money. convenience are being offered. 80 HOURS Because mammograms are one of the only tests in which patients are able to Study finds high self-refer, UIHC hopes individuals will blood-lead in new- take the opportunity to be examined. borns “The mammogram is a low dose X-ray A recent study done at the that is made by placing the breast between UI State Hygienic Labo- two X-ray plates and compressing slight- ratory found high blood- Nick Rohlman/The Daily Iowan ly,” UI clinical Assistant Professor Ingrid lead levels in 1 in 5 Iowa Terry, an inmate volunteer, on Tuesday walks Russ, a shelter dog who was placed at the Iowa Medical & Classification Center as part of a Lizarraga said in an email to The Daily Io- newborns. The test included program in which inmates teach shelter dogs obedience and help to rehabilitate them for adoption or placement. wan. “Two views are taken, top to bottom more than 2,300 infant and side to side. The radiologist then re- blood samples taken from BY JORDAN PROCHNOW ty that the facility was not just a saw how well they’re taken care of, views the pictures to look for abnormali- 2006-08. News, 2A [email protected] penitentiary. you’d want them to come here.” ties.” They started with only one dog; In order to become affiliated UIHC performs more than 8,000 Mid-season report: When Liz Ford enters the Iowa in January, shelter dogs became with the program, inmates must screenings a year, providing an import- WRs and DBs Medical & Classification Center, available. There are currently 11 res- apply, interview, and earn their ant detection for what may be otherwise The DI’s sports editors she places a large paper bag of dog ident dogs. spot through hard work and ded- unnoticed issues. Clinical chief of breast continue to give out treats, food, and toys on a conveyer “It was kind of a dream, to have ication to the training. Individ- imaging Deborah Havel-Korson said that grades belt, being sent through a scanner the dogs here,” Josh, one of the in- uals also have to continuously before 3D mammography was available, to the to rule out the possibility of weap- mates that leads the program, said. study and prepare to be a trainer, 12 percent of patients were asked back for football ons or other contraband entering “I didn’t really think it would hap- and are paired up with dogs with follow-up testing, while the number has team this the facility. pen, then one day, a dog came.” which they can correct specific decreased to around 7 percent with this week, Ford, the supervisor for the Currently, there are in-house problems. If behavioral or disci- addition. based on Iowa City Animal Services and therapy dogs and community ser- plinary issues occur with the of- “Mammograms have been shown to posi- Animal Care and Adoption Cen- vice dogs, training to work with fenders, their dogs are taken away find cancers before they cause symptoms, tions. To- VandeBerg ter, oversees a program pairing owners in wheelchairs, elementary for three months and they must when they can be treated more easily and day, they inmates in the facility with dogs school students, and those in need reapply to the program.
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