Designed to provide hope and celebration for those with cancer and all who love them, the Living Proof Exhibit's and Quad City Symphony Orchestra's opera Karkinos will enjoy a special presentation at Moline's Barlett Performing Arts Center on February 12, with the ensemble's musicians and conductor Mark Russell Smith treating guests to a dazzling new work by Jacob Bancks, whose compositions have been praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer as "frisky, colorful, voluble, and written in a direct musical style."