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9 December Thursday

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Concert

Cabot House Music Society. Voices, a program of songs and musical theater with Anna Myatt, Roger Marsh, Luna Woolf and Charles McGuire. Features Brecht songs by Weill and Eisler and works by Patrick Lee, Luciano Berio, Georges Aperghis and Roger Marsh. Cabot Lounge, 7:30 p.m.

Exhibitions

Busch-Reisinger Museum. Through Dec. 12. "The Sketchbooks of George Grosz." Exploring the many sides of the former dada activist through more than 80 of his previously unexhibited sketchbooks.

Fogg Art Museum. Through Jan. 6: "The Art of Time: Clocks, Watches, and Other Timepieces from Harvard Collections." The inner works of each timepiece will be displayed outside the case to help viewers appreciate the clockmakers' art.

Through Jan. 9. "An Offbeat Collection of Dutch and Flemish Paintings." Featuring 20 works from the 16th-and 17th century Netherlands, all drawn from a private collection.

Through Feb. 20. "Turner-Ruskin-Nor ton-Winthrop." Grenville Winthrop's collection of over 600 will be highlighted by an exhibition of prints by and after the great British Romantic landscapist Joseph Turner (1775-1851). Turner's interest was spurred by his education at Harvard under Charles Eliot Norton, who was in turn deeply influenced by John Ruskin, the British critic.

Ongoing. "Decorative Arts Gallery." 17th and 18th-century British and American silver, furniture and porcelain. Some of the rare treasures are the "President's Chair" and the "Great Salt."

Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library. Through Jan. 17. "Jazz Illustrated: The Extraordinary Art of Burt Goldblatt, An Exhibition of Graphic Art and Photography." Featuring photography, perspective drawing, painting, typography, caricature and collage.

Museum of Comparative Zoology, Agassiz Museum. Through April. "Everybody Likes Trilobites." Some 300 trilobites-prehistoric anthropods, sea-dwelling creatures distantly related to insects-from the collection of Thomas Johnson remarkable for their exquisite condition and international range.

Sackler Museum. Through Jan. 23. "Buddhist Art: The Later Tradition." A survey of Buddhist art from the 8th through the 18th centuries, emphasizing works from China, Korea and Japan but also including ones from Nepal and Tibet.

Through Jan. 30. "Calligraphy and the Arts of the Book." Over 30 examples of this highly sophisticated, subtle and infinitely varied medium will be chosen for their meaning and beauty.

Through July. "Impressions of Mesopotamia: Seals from the Ancient Near East." Featuring 24 seals and charting their stylistic and functional development over 3000 years of history.

Film

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center. $5 for students. "Zoo" at 7 p.m. This is a film about the zoo in Miami, Florida, with 780 animals representing hundreds of species.

"Quai des orfevres" at 7:30 p.m. A love triangle with mistaken identity concerning the murder which is eventually resolved.

Holiday Sale

Printing and Graphic Arts Holiday Sale. Holiday cards, selected posters and Houghton Library publications suitable for gifts. Widener Library rotunda, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

FM picks: Bach Society Orchestra

The ensemble performs works by Samuel Barber, Hovhaness, Ravel and Bloch. Paine Hall, 8 p.m. $5 for students. Tickets are available at Holyoke Center Ticket Office and at the door.

Theatre

The Flying Karamazov Brothers. Through Jan. 2. Experience the fun, hilarity, and astonishing dexterity of these master jugglers and vaudevillians in a show for the entire family. $18-$30. Cambridge Theatre Company at the Hasty Pudding Theatre, 8 p.m. 496-8400.

Darlene. The story of Sidney and Rose, two young urban professionals at the helms of their respective dating services, who look for love in all the wrong places. Loeb EX, 7:30 p.m.

Dracula. The Eliot House Drama Society presents the tale of a beautiful young woman who becomes the battleground between an infamous vampire and three men determined to save her life and soul. Eliot House Library, 8 p.m. $5; $4 for Eliot residents.

H.M.S. Pinafore. By William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. A rollicking song and dance show with an undercurrent of British satire and a splash of romance. Agassiz Theatre, 8 p.m. $3-$7 for students.

Pippin. Join us for a magical traveling players presentation. Experience Pippin's whirlwind tour of the trials of life. Watch as the players use their show to seduce Pippin into sacrificing his mediocre life in their explosive finale-and all for the glory of the troupe. Dunster House Dining Hall, 8:30 p.m. $3 for 1 ticket, $5 for two and $2 for Dunster residents.

Witness for the Prosecution. Get ready for murder, mystery, intrigue and mass confusion; this is Agatha Christie's other masterpiece. We'll stay true to '40s Britainplay with expectation and have a great time. Leverett Old Library, 8 p.m. $5, $4 for students, $3 for Leverett residents. 10 December Friday

Concert

Bach Society Orchestra. The ensemble performs works by Samuel Barber, Hovhaness, Ravel and Bloch. Paine Hall, 8 p.m. $5 for students. Tickets are available at Holyoke Center Ticket Office and at the door.

Mendelssohn String Quartet. Perform Hugo Wolf's Italian Serenade, Bartok's String Quartet No. 4 and Schumann's Quartet in A Major. Houghton Library, 8 p.m. $8 for students.

Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum. Perform Bach's B Minor Mass. Sanders Theatre, 8 p.m.

Film

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center. "Heaven and Earth. "Tommy Lee Jones will attend this benefit screening of his latest film. 7 p.m. $50 donation. Call 495-7000 for details.

Theatre

The Flying Karamazov Brothers. Please see Thursday's listings.

Darlene. Please see Thursday's listings.

Dracula. Please see Thursday's listings.

Marat/Sade. The persecution and assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, as performed by the inmates of the Asyulum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade. Adams House Pool/Theatre, 2 p.m. Tickets are available at the Holyoke Center Ticket Office.

H.M.S. Pinafore. Please see THursday's listings.

Pippin. Please see Thursday's listings

Witness for the Prosecution. Please see Thursday's listings. 11 December Saturday

Concert

New England Conservatory Honors Trio Max Levinson, piano; Louise Owen, violin and Sophia Zappi, cello. North House, Holmes Living Room, 8 p.m. Free.

Film

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center. $5 for students. "Rembetiko" at 3 p.m. The fictionalized biography of a popular Greek singer provides a distinctive look at the events that played an important role in Greek history in the first part of the twentieth century.

USA Poetry #1 at 4 p.m. A substantial picturing of America's finest poets reading and discussing their works. Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Duncan, Weiner, Whalen, Snyder.

"Wittgenstein" at 5 p.m. A humorous portrait of one of this century's most influential philosophers.

"The Price of Love" at 7 p.m. The depiction of an impoverished member of the gentry and a girl of humble origins being in love.

USA Poetry #2 at 7:30 p.m. A substantial picturing of America's finest poets reading and discussing their works. McClure, Lowell, Zukofsky.

"Evdokia" at 9 p.m. A drama of passion, in which main characters are a sergeant and a prostitute who get married after a brief passionate idyll.

USA Poetry #3 at 9:15 p.m. A substantial picturing of America's finest poets reading and discussing their works. O'Hara, Sanders, Levertov, Creeley.

Talk

Gallery Talk. William Andrewes, David Wheatland Curator, Harvard UniversityCollection of Historical Scientific Instruments,on "The Art of Time: Clocks, Watches and otherTimepieces from Harvard Collections." Fogg ArtMuseum, 2-3 p.m. $3 for students.

Theatre

The Flying Karamazov Brothers. Pleasesee Thursday's listings.

Darlene. Please see Thursday's lstings.

Dracula. Please see Thursday's listings.

Marat/Sade. Please see Friday'slistings.

H.M.S. Pinafore. Please see Thursday'slistings.

Pippin. Please see Thursday's listings.

Witness for the Prosecution. Please seeThursday's listings.12 December Sunday

Film

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "1922" at 2 p.m. The tortuous anddevastating march of a group of captives throughthe desert of Asia Minor, immediately after itsdisaster.

USA Poetry #2 at 4 p.m. Please see Saturday'slistings.

"Wittgenstein" at 5 p.m. A humorous portrait ofone of this century's most influentialphilosophers.

"The Woman Who Dreamed" at 7 p.m. Annacontinually recounts her dreams and nightmares toher husband, a lawyer so wrapped up in his workthat he fails to realize that they are driftingapart.

USA Poetry #3 at 7:30 p.m. Please seeSaturday's listings.

"Loafing and Camouflage" at 9 p.m. Thedifficult period during the first months of 1967in Greece.

USA Poetry #1 at 9:15 p.m. Please seeSaturday's listings.

Theatre

The Flying Karamazov Brothers. Pleasesee Thursday's listings.

Marat/Sade. Please see Friday'slistings.13 December Monday

Film

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Les Diaboliques" at 5:30 p.m. Atyrannical schoolmaster bumped off by hislong-suffering wife and her mistress, who learnonly too soon that they have botched the job.

"Homage by Assassination/Introduction to theEnd of an Argument" at 7:30 p.m. "Homage":Confined to his New York apartment, a Palestinianfilmmaker begins to question notions of identityand exile during the Gulf War. "Introduction": Acritique of the representation of Arabs in Westernmedia and fiction film.

USA Poetry #2 at 9:30 p.m. Please seeSaturday's listings.14 December Tuesday

Concert

Harvard Medical School and School of DentalMedicine. The fourth annual Holiday sing,featuring part one of Handel's Messiah. BuildingA, third floor, 3:45 p.m.

Film

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Topos" at 5:30 p.m. A womangives birth and dies.

"A Man Escaped" at 7:30 p.m. Based on a trueaccount of wartime escape.

USA Poetry #3 at 9:30 p.m. Please see

"Thelma and Louise" at 10 p.m. What would it belike to be pushed over the edge of a cliff? Thisfilm takes the metaphor built into such a questionand turns it into a plot.

Theatre

The Flying Karamazov Brothers. Pleasesee Thursday's listings.15 December Wednesday

Film

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "I've Heard the Mermaids Singing"at 5:30 p.m. Polly's passion is photography. Herdaydreams are triggered by the pleasure she getsfrom taking photographs that express how she seeslife.

"Diary of a Country Priest" at 6 p.m. The filmdepicts a frustrated young priest living in thecountry with hostile parishioners.

"Ugetsu Monogatari" at 7:30 p.m. The legend ofa potter, Genjuro and a farmer Tobei, who, drawnby the lure of wartime profits, risk not their ownlives but the lives and happiness of theirfamilies.

USA Poetry #1 at 9:30 p.m. A substantialpicturing of America's finest poets reading anddiscussing their works. Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti,Duncan, Weiner, Whalen, Snyder.

"Thelma and Louise" at 10 p.m.

Talk

Norton Lecture Series. Luciano Berio.Sanders Theatre, 4:30 p.m.

Theatre

The Flying Karamazov Brothers. Pleasesee Thursday's listings

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