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Eileen Coyne, a 16-year-old French horn player from Glocester, is one of two winners of the Rhode Island Philharmonic’s concerto competition for musicians 18 years old and under. The honor has earned the Ponaganset High School junior a solo appearance with the Philharmonic’s youth orchestra May 17 at Rhode Island College’s Roberts Auditorium, when she will perform the opening movement of Mozart’s second horn concerto. Eileen plays in the Ponaganset High wind ensemble and concert band, both of which are conducted by her father, Daniel Coyne. She is principal horn with the Philharmonic’s youth orchestra and the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra.

The other winner was Avery Yen, a senior at Sharon High School in Sharon, Mass. Avery began playing the cello when he was 7 and has performed in Symphony Hall, Jordan Hall and appeared in Leipzig and Prague. Avery will play the first movement of the Shostakovich cello concerto at a May 6 education concert.

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Raquel Welch is the one behind those Foster Grants. And this time, they’re not sunglasses but reading glasses. Welch, 68, previously appeared in several of the company’s ads in the 1960s and ’70s, which asked “Who’s behind those Foster Grants?” With Baby Boomers aging and their eyes declining, the company is now expanding from sensual to practical.

FGX International, which has offices in Smithfield, is the designer and marketer of the glasses and has announced it intends to spend $12 million this year on TV advertising for the new line of Foster Grant glasses.