Republic’s Monte and Avery Lipman Honored by City of Hope at New York Event

variety.com:

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorFor everything that music and entertainment do to better people’s lives, it’s all put into a sobering context when you hear someone speak about their work at a cancer treatment center.

And the music industry’s work with City of Hope cancer treatment and research center in Los Angeles is one of its greatest charitable efforts.

This year, Republic Records founders (and brothers) Monte and Avery Lipman will be honored with the Spirit of Life awards at a gala dinner in October, and the campaign kicked off this month with a Tuesday breakfast at Tavern on the Green in New York and at an event in Los Angeles earlier in May.Republic artist Billy Porter and a galaxy of label staffers were in attendance, as were multiple Univeral Music execs, attorneys and many others.

Universal Publishing president Evan Lamberg — who first met Monte when both were freshman at what was then the State University of New York at Albany — essentially MC’ed the event, and introduced two top City of Hope executives, Lean Burton, herself a cancer survivor and a leader of prostate cancer research at the facility, and Natalie Shakeman, who leads the efforts for supportive care, which (in a drastic oversimplification) is essentially the non-traditional aspects of cancer treatment: she noted that cancer takes over the entire life not only of the patient but their families, and spoke of the ways the center works to support them in ways that go beyond medicine.