Posted by Milton Carrero at 01:44:42 PM on September 28, 2012
Blood disorders have marked Sandra Moran's family in devastating ways.
Her twin daughters were both diagnosed with Leukemia soon after their birth. Moran fought the disease by their daughters' side until their last days. She did the same for her sister, who died of Lymphoma at the age of 39.
The disease seems to have claimed a few battles, but the Morans are still fighting. And this time, they are using music.
Jessica and Christa Moran both loved music. They were constantly in pain and yet they kept their spirits high with songs and good humor.
Jessica died at 21 and Christa just shy of her 25th birthday. But they are remembered by family and friends as the 'Giggle Twins,' because their joy was never far from sight.
To honor them, and to help others suffering from blood disorders, the family has organized a piano duet concert on Sunday, Oct. 7 at 4 pm in the Wesley United Methodist Church, located at 2540 Center Street in Bethlehem. ?All proceeds from this concert will be donated to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of the Lehigh Valley.
Guest Performers include accomplished pianists Daniel L. Kramlich?and Kana Mimaki of Houston, TX., ?who will fuse musical notes from separate pianos. Kramlich, is music professor at?Houston Baptist University whose work has been?commissioned by the Arkansas Symphony. He is also known for his?arrangements for handbells and piano.
Mimaki?is the winner of the Los Angeles Liszt Competition, the International Russian Music Competition, and Catania International Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto Competition. She has?performed at Carnegie Hall in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
Also performing will be guest soloist Ms. Karen Cocca of Allentown.
The program will include both classical and contemporary music as well as some original compositions by Dr. Kramlich, who was born and raised in the?Lehigh Valley. ??
"My mission is to raise as much as we can so that more people can have more hope in the future," Moran explains. ??
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