Sunday, December 23, 2007
McDonald High grad
to perform in parade
McDONALD — Dominic Giudici, a 2004 graduate of McDonald High School, will perform in the Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade and Spectacular, which will be televised on ABC on Christmas morning. The son of Terri Sebastiano of Youngstown, he began studying dance at age 5. He performed in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular at age 11. After graduation, Giudici moved to Los Angeles to study. He has been a performer on the Holland America Cruise Line for the past two years. Giudici lives in Orlando, Fla., where he is also a cast member of Walt Disney World.
The Christmas Day Parade show will include singers Patti LaBelle, Jessica Simpson, Katherine McPhee and members of the cast of “Dancing with the Stars.”
A musical tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.
YOUNGSTOWN — The Martin Luther KIng Jr. Planning Committee will present a musical tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. at 7 p.m. Jan. 19 in Powers Auditorium. The Youngstown Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Randall Craig Fleischer, will perform Spiritual Journey, a narrative symphonic score written and arranged by Fleischer and Heidi Joyce. Spiritual Journey will be narrated by Mayor Jay Williams and his wife, Sonja. The Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Choir, under the direction of Arnold Wagner, will perform “We Shall Overcome,” “Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho,” “When We All Get To Heaven” and “Sanctuary” with the orchestra. In salute of African-American composers, the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra will perform excerpts from Dawson’s “Negro Folk Symphony” and Still’s “Afro-American Symphony.” Tickets are available at the Powers box office; by phone at (330) 744-0264; and or online at youngstownsymphony.com.
Hoyt seeks artists
for exhibition schedule
NEW CASTLE, Pa. — The Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts is seeking artists to fill its 2009-10 solo exhibition schedule. Artists living in the mid-Atlantic region can apply by submitting contact information, artist statement, 10 to 20 images on a CD (jpeg format, 500 kb maximum) or slides, image list, resume or curriculum vitae, a stamped, self-addressed envelope (for return of materials) and a $30 review fee to: Call for Artists, Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, 124 E. Leasure Ave., New Castle, Pa. 16101. Entries must be postmarked by Feb. 15. For information and a prospectus, go to hoytartcenter.org or call (724) 652-2882, ext. 14.
Art schools give comics
some academic respect
CINCINNATI — As a fine arts graduate student in the early 1980s, Carol Tyler felt she had to hide her interest in cartoon drawing from teachers. An art form associated with comic books and comic strips wasn’t considered college material. Now a professional cartoonist and graphic novelist, Tyler began teaching the University of Cincinnati’s first comics art class last year. Other colleges have also started such classes as critical and academic respect for comics has grown. Courses that began in 2005 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks are starting to draw professional artists and public schoolteachers. Monroe Community College in Rochester, N.Y., will start its first course this spring.