Briefly in Datebook

The Adoption Guild of Southern Orange County will host its 39th annual

Roy Emerson Tennis Tournament Adoption Guild Classic beginning at 9 a.m.

Saturday through Monday and June 3 and 4.

The tournament will be held at several locations:

* Newport Beach Tennis Club, 2601 Eastbluff Drive, Newport Beach

* Palisades Tennis Club, 1171 Jamboree Road, Newport Beach

* Balboa Bay Club Racquet Club, 1602 E. Coast Highway, Newport Beach

* Racquet Club of Irvine, 5 Sanburg Way, Irvine

The tournament, which will feature several events for men and women, will

benefit Holy Family Services in Orange County.

Last year, the Adoption Guild donated more than $75,000 to Holy Family

Services. Guild officials say this year’s goal is to raise $100,000.

There will be a $5 admission charge for the June 4 final event at the

Newport Beach Tennis Club. All other events are free.

For more information, call (949) 760-8394.

Lineup announced for Center’s concert series

The Emerson String Quartet and classical guitar virtuoso Christopher

Parkening are among the musicians scheduled to appear in the Orange

County Performing Arts Center’s 2000-01 Concert Series.

The Classical Ensemble Series will kick off Nov. 9 with the Vellinger

String Quartet. The following is a scheduled list of performances:

* Christopher Parkening -- Nov. 12

* The Academy of Ancient Music and Andrew Manze -- Nov. 19

* Rossetti String Quartet -- Nov. 30

* Musica Angelica -- Dec. 14

* American String Quartet -- Jan. 14

* Artemis Quartet -- Feb. 2

* Cellist Nina Kotova -- Feb. 15

* Jordi Savall and Hesperion XX -- March 15

* Assad Duo -- March 21

* Emerson String Quartet -- April 19

The Vocal Series will include two performances in Segerstrom Hall.

Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves will perform Jan. 26 and soprano Kathleen

Battle will be featured Feb. 11.

Subscriptions are $185 to $245 for the Classical Ensemble Series (which

is divided into two parts), and $59 to $110 for the Vocal Series. New

subscriptions will go on sale June 4 through Ticketmaster at (714)

740-7878.

For more information about The Center events, call (714) 556-2787 or

visit the Web site at o7 https://www.ocpac.org.

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Local woman’s photography judged a winner on Web site

Nicole Rogers’ photographs of the Huntington Beach Pier, the Golden Gate

Bridge and zoo animals have earned her a seven-week trip to Europe.

Rogers, from Balboa Island, recently was named one of seven grand-prize

winners in the “Win Big” talent contest featured on a new Web site, o7

Upstage.comf7 .

The Web site provides an online community for young artists in seven

fields -- digital and visual arts, music, film, modeling, writing and

performance -- to collaborate and promote their work with online

portfolios.

Rogers and her fellow winners also have been awarded laptop computers,

video and digital cameras, luggage and MP3 players. The European

adventures will be filmed and broadcast on the Web site.

More than 300 entries were received in the contest, and about 5,000

visitors to the site cast votes, Upstage.com officials said.

Photography is one of Rogers’ passions, along with ballet and jazz,

according to her biography on the site.

“When I have a camera in my hands, I am in heaven,” she wrote. “I think

there is nothing better than looking at the world through a camera lens.”

Rogers, 19, attends the University of San Diego. To see her work, go to

the Web site at o7 https://www.upstage.comf7 .