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Charity Concert from the Choir of the Spanish Railways Foun- dation
Various studies suggest that music is one of the most efficient therapies for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. For this reason, the Choir of the Spanish Railway Foundation has wanted to support Alzheimer’s research with a charity concert on June 19, the funds of which have been allocated entirely to the projects and initiatives developed by the CIEN (Center for Research in Neurological Diseases) Foundation.
The Madrid Railway Museum, managed by the Spanish Railway Foundation and which recreates an old train station scene of multiple film shoots, has hosted the performance. The Spanish Railways Foundation Choir is made up of 30 mixed voic- es and led by Joan Borrás have performed a repertoire of 10 songs, including “New York, New York”, by J. Kander and F. Ebb , or “¡Viva Madrid!”, by P. Sorozábal.
The concert has also been part of the activities of “NEURO2020: Neurodegener- ative Diseases 2020. International Year of Research and Innovation. In this way, these types of actions bring society closer to the reality of neurodegenerative dis- eases, which in many cases have important social consequences for the families and caregivers of patients.
The concert was attended by José Luis Nogueira, secretary of the Queen Sofia Foundation (in whose Alzheimer Center the CIEN Foundation is headquartered), Ma Ángeles Pérez, manager of the CIEN Foundation, and Francisco Polo, director of the Railway Museum from Madrid. José Luis Nogueira affirmed that this type of action “helps to make citizens aware of the importance of the work that is carried out every day in the field of research, such as that carried out by scientists from the Queen Sofia Foundation Alzheimer Center to achieve a solution to the disease ”. Along these lines, Ma Ángeles Pérez wanted to emphasize the “great help that charitable actions like this represent, which are an important boost to continue developing different research projects in neurodegenerative pathologies such as Alzheimer’s disease”. For his part, Francisco Polo stressed the importance of show- ing this type of social action through cultural activities such as music.
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