Asian concert at YSU

Asian concert at YSU
YOUNGSTOWN -- Youngstown State University New Music Society will present its annual Asian Connections Concert, "East Meets West," at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Bliss Recital Hall. Guest performers will be Dr. Misook Yun, soprano, and Dr. Kathryn Thomas Umble, flute, both faculty members of the YSU Dana School of Music; and YSU alumna Frances Chang, piano. The Composers Ensemble will also give the debut performances of works by YSU graduate student Joseph Klamer and sophomore Jason Endler.
Also Wednesday, a noon-hour bag lunch concert will be presented by the Composers Ensemble at the Butler Institute of American Art.
Both concerts are free.
Jazz quintet to perform
GREENVILLE, Pa. -- The Sean Jones Jazz Quintet will present a concert at 3:30 p.m. next Sunday at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Penn Avenue and Clinton Street.
Co-sponsored by the Friends of Music at Holy Trinity and Thiel College Guest Artist and Lecturer Series, the concert will feature Jones, a trumpeter from Warren and graduate of Youngstown State University Dana School of Music, with Illinois Jacquet, Charles Fambrough, Tony Reedus and Mike Philips.
For more information, call (724) 588-8870.
Big in 2002 Awards
Leave it to VH1 to shake things up. Already inundated with awards shows for everything under the sun, we now have VH1 and its "VH1 Big in 2002 Awards," a sort of special nod to the excesses of pop culture.
The two-hour special will premiere Dec. 15 and will feature such categories as "Strange but True." Competitors in this category include "The Anna Nicole Show," "The Osbournes," "Crossing Over With John Edward," "The Pet Psychic" and "True Hollywood Story." In the category "Do I Look Fat in This Fight?" competitors include Sarah Michelle Gellar for "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," Jennifer Garner for "Alias," Beyonc & eacute; Knowles for "Goldmember," Lucy Liu for "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever" and Natalie Portman for "Attack of the Clones." You get the idea.
Playing Presley pays
LAS VEGAS -- It's good to be The King -- and profitable, too.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority recently approved a one-year contract extension with talent agencies that book "meet and greet" Elvis Presley impersonators for the authority's marketing events.
Elvis impersonators will continue to get $650 per daily appearance on behalf of the city where the rock 'n' roll icon never really left the building.
The amount is nearly double the $350 that showgirls receive for similar four-hour gigs.
Say what?
"If I could overhear a conversation between any two people in history, it would probably be between God and Moses. I just want to know what the conversation was back then with the Ten Commandments and everything." -- Rapper Tweet, on biblical history, to J-14 magazine.