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Portland Observer
ENTERTAINMENT
Diana Ross To Star In Special Pay-
Per-View Television Event
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The legendary Diana Ross will star
in an upcoming pay-per-view televi
sion event, entitled “ Diana Ross Live...
The Lady Sings” on December 4,1992,
it was announced today by PolyGram
Diversified Entertainm ent’s (PDE)
President, John Scher. The program
will feature Diana Ross, performing
jazz and blues and music that she loves.
It will be shot live from New York City
in an intimate setting, evoking a smoky
after-house club.
This pay-per-view event will show
case Diana Ross’ extraordinary vocal
talents as well as providing a unique and
private glimpse into the mucic which
influenced her incomparable singing
career. The event, 90 minutes long, will
allow the viewer to savor the richness
and depth of Diana Ross’ live perfor
mance in the comfortof theirown home.
Since first signing with Motown in
1961, Diana Ross has unparalleled suc
cess as leader of The S upremes and as a
solo performer, producing a stream of
endless number one hits worldwide and
selling out concert tours on every con
tinent of the globe.
But Ross’ achievements do not lie
solely within the music industry. She
received an Academy Award nomina
tion for her first film role as jazz great
Billie Holiday in “Lady Sings the Blues.”
The soundtrack album was huge suc
cess and reached #1 on the Billboard
charts.
In regard to the worldwide broad
cast of “Diana Ross lave...The Lady
Sings,” Diana Ross comments, “My
performance is centered around the
music I love-jazz and blues.
“It’s part of my soul, a freedom I
seek in all my music. Billie Holiday is
burned into my soul. I hear her and I
know her voice but I also feel her pain.
I started loving the music early, blues
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it, worked it and slept the blues.
“I’m looking forward to this per
formance. I want to find this genera
tion of great, young, jazz artists. I want
it to be the past and the present coming
together to look at the future of jazz.”
This once in a lifetime event is
directed by Steve Binder, a longtime
associate of Diana Ross (“Diana Ross
in C entral P ark,” “ D iana..W orld
Tour”), who is also an Emmy and Ace
award winner. Says Binder, “Working
with Diana Ross over the years has
always been a highlight in my personal
career. Now, I have the rare opportu
nity to capture an intimate evening
with the Lady on camera live, as only
a few close personal friends have been
privileged to see her heretofore. This
will be a rare opportunity for me as
well as her fans world wide.”
John Scher, President of PDE, is
equally enthusiastic over the upcoming
television event. “I feel fortunate to be
bring ing a talent of the caliber of Diana
Ross, unquestionably one of the most
important female voices to ever grace
the pages of musical history to pay-per-
view. I hope the viewer is as excited as
I am about this seminal performance.”
“Diana Ross Live...The Lady
Sings” will be distributed by Viewer’s
Choice, Graff Pay-Per-View and Reiss
Media Entertainment Corp. (Request
TV) for S19.95. It will also be distrib
uted by London-based PolyGram Tele
vision International (PTI) outside of
North America. This event is a co
production between PolyGram Diver
sified Entertainment and Diana Ross’
ANAID Film Production, Inc.
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Free “ Music Gives” Concert To
Benefit The Oregon Food Bank
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Ching-HSIN HSU To Conduct Program O f Classical Favorites- Food
Donations Earmarked For Campaign To End Childhood Hunger
Barbara Straughan of Northeast
Portland was appointed by Meredith
Cote, the Long Term Care Ombudsman
for the State of Oregon, to serve as a
certified ombudsman in Multnomah
County. Mrs. Straughan is a medical
review specialist for the State of Or
egon. She is being assigned to Del’s
Care Center where she will serve as an
advocate for the residents of the nursing
facility, helping to ensure they receive
the best possible care.
The Office of Long Term Care
Ombudsman is a program of the State
of Oregon, dedicated to protecting the
rights, safety and dignity of the resi
dents of nursing homes, residential care
facilities and adult foster care homes.
The next volunteer training sessions
scheduled in the Portland area begin on
February 6,1993. Call 1-800-522-2602
for more information on becoming a
certified ombudsman or to report a con
cern about a facility.
HONOR OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH
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Appointed As
Ombudsman
INVITATION TO SUBMIT POETRY
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For the third year in a row, the
Oregon Symphony will present “Music
Gives,” a free community concert to
benefit the Oregon Food Bank. The
concert will be held Wednesday, Dec.
16 a 7:30 p.m. at the Arlene Schnitzer
Concert Hall in the Portland Center for
the Performing Arts and is free with the
donation of at least two non-perishable
food items. Oregon Symphony Affili
ate Artist/NEA Assistant conductor
Ching-Hsin Hsu (Apo) will conduct.
This concert is sponsored by PACC
Health Plans in cooperation with KATU-
TV and The Oregonian.
More than 2,000 people attended
the 1991 “Music Gives” community
concert, bringing in close to 4,900
pounds of food for the Oregon Food
Bank, a hunger-relief organization serv
ing 20 regional food banks that distrib
ute food to the hungry throughout the
state. To enlist the community’s sup
port in fighting hunger among our
region's chi ldren, the Oregon Food Bank
last year launched the Campaign to End
Childhood Hunger.
The 1992OregonSymphony“Mu-
sic Gives” will directly benefit the Cam
paign to End Childhood Hunger in O r
egon, of which Symphony Music Di
rector and Conductor James DePrest
serves as honorary chair.
The concert w ill feature a program
of favorite classics. Movements from
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 will
dominate the program, interspersed with
Debussy’s “Prelude a l’apres-midi d ’ un
faune,’’Sibelius’ “Finlfandia,” Brahms’
“Academic Festival Overture” and his
“Alto Rhapsody” (with vocal soloist
Judith Ramaley and a male chorus).
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In h o n o r o f Black H istory M onth, F eb ru ary 1993, U.S. B ank is invit
ing in d iv id u a ls o f all a g e s a n d e th n ic b a c k g ro u n d s to subm it poetry
for p u b lic a tio n in local n e w sp a p e rs.
U p to 20 p o e m s will b e se le c te d for in clusion in a special po etry
sec tio n that will b e p u b lis h e d in n e w sp a p e rs th ro u g h o u t O re g o n ,
w h ich will b e titled “A frican-A m erican R eflections.”
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6800 N .E Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
MUSIC
MILLENNIUM
Entry guidelines
• D e ad lin e for en trie s is D e c e m b e r 18, 1992.
• P oetry sh o u ld reflect th e Black H istory M onth th e m e a n d sh o u ld
tie into this celeb ratio n o f black history a n d e x p e rien ce .
• All w ritten p iece s m ust b e ty p ed , d o u b le -sp a c e d , a n d p teferably
ad u lt (13-18), o r a child.
• All e n trie s m u st in c lu d e n a m e , a d d r e s s , p h o n e n u m b e r, a n d
n am e o f sch o o l (w h e re a p p ro p ria te ) for c o n sid eratio n .
• All en trie s m u st b e original w o rk o f th e en tra n t.
• A p an e l o f judges will review e a c h p o e m a n d b ase theii s e le c
tio n s o n originality, form , th em e, a n d clarity of th o u g h t.
• D ue to v olum e, p iece s c a n n o t b e re tu rn e d .
2 3R D & N W JOHNSON
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A frican-A m erican R eflections
U.S. B ank Events
P O . B ox 8837, T-5
P ortland, OR 97208
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Questions? Call Ainlx-r Schmitt at U.S. Bank (503) 275-524».
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