YSU Piano Week finalists

YSU Piano Week finalists
YOUNGSTOWN -- Five area pupils have been chosen as finalists in a Youngstown State University Piano Week bonus concert at 5 p.m. Thursday in YSU's Ford Theater, Bliss Hall, first floor. Admission is free.
Piano Week director Caroline Oltmanns has added the concert this year to give pupils experience at performing on a collegiate level and interaction with college students and professors who serve as mentors. It's also in conjunction with Youngstown Music Teachers Association.
Participants and their selections are:
USolomon Lu, a freshman at Boardman High School, will perform Paderewski's "Menuet Opus 14, No. 1";
UJessica Shearer of Wampum, Pa., a seventh-grader who is home-schooled, will perform Mozart's "Sonata in A-Major";
UBrianna Best, an eighth-grader at Lakeview High School in Cortland, will play Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag";
UTimothy Lee, a sophomore at Howland High School, will perform "Concert Etude in D-Flat Major 'Un Sospiro'" by Franz Liszt;
ULeslie Cusano, a junior at Boardman High School, will play George Gershwin's "Three Preludes."
Annual Magic Show
AUSTINTOWN -- Youngstown Magic Club members will perform at the 11th annual Magic Show to benefit Camp Fire USA Northeast Ohio Council at 2 p.m. next Sunday at Austintown Middle School, 5800 Mahoning Ave. Refreshments will be served. Admission is $5 for reserved seats, $4 for adult general admission and $3 for children and senior citizens' general admission. Call (330) 533-4121 for tickets.
'Evening of Jazz'
WARREN -- Beth Israel Temple Sisterhood's "Evening of Jazz" will feature Alton Merrell and Friends at 8 p.m. March 20 in the temple center, 2138 E. Market St. Merrell's trio also performed last year. Tickets are $25 and include cheeses, wines and desserts. Reservations must be made by March 15. Call (330) 372-6372 for information.
'Murders' at golf club
SALEM -- Stage Left Players of Lisbon will present a dinner theater production of "All My Murders," an audience participation mystery, at 6:30 p.m. April 30 and May 1 at Salem Golf Club, 1967 S. Lincoln Ave.
The cost is $35 per person, or $30 per person when a table of eight is booked.
Reservations for this Stage Left fund-raiser can be made by calling (330) 424-5093.
Gallery exhibition
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. -- Gallery 64 Bookstore in downtown Slippery Rock will offer "Emerging Los Angeles Printmakers" as its March exhibition, featuring the works of young artist-printmakers attending various universities and art schools in the Los Angeles area.
The exhibit is a first-time collaboration between SRU's art department and the Los Angeles Printmakers Society, which sponsors various national and local exhibits to further the knowledge of the printmaking art.
Glen Brunken, SRU art professor, said the prints will represent new ideas and techniques. He notes that Los Angeles has been at the forefront of the surge in printmaking and collecting for more than 40 years, and has dozens of workshops thriving in the creation of such art.
But the printmaking tradition has its roots in the Middle Ages, running through all of Europe and the Orient, he said. Artists including Rembrandt, Blake, Toulouse-Latrec and Picasso in the West and the Japanese woodcut artists, including Hokusai in the East, were involved in printmaking.
Gallery 165 Bookstore is a joint project of the SRU Alumni Association and the SRU Bookstore.
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