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The Harvard Scene

Special Events

The annual figure-skating show, An Evening with Champions, provides both a fun activity and a worthy cause. The benefit is expected to raise $150,000 this year for the Jimmy Fund, which aids children with cancer. Performances are at the Harvard Bright Hockey Center on October 18, at 8 p.m., and October 19 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Call 493-8172 for tickets, priced at $20 (adults) and $10 (students, seniors and children).

Theater

On October 11 at 8 p.m. the Office for the Arts, in cooperation with the Poets' Theatre, presents A Robert Browning Evening, with Jerome Kilty. The reading will take place in Agassiz Theatre. Call 495-8676 for details.

...and Watts's Sir Galahad, both at the Fogg.
...and Watts's Sir Galahad, both at the Fogg.
The American Repertory Theatre opens its 1996-97 season on October 25 with a musical. Punch and Judy Get Divorced, book by David Gordon and Ain Gordon, music by Edward Barnes, and lyrics by Arnold Weinstein, David Gordon, and Ain Gordon, will be performed at Suffolk University's C. Walsh Theater, located behind the Massachusetts State House at 55 Temple Street. For ticket information call (617) 547-8300.

Exhibitions

At the Fogg, "David Rabinowitch: Sculptures and Templates, 1968" opens on September 14. An exhibit of early Italian Renaissance painting, "Investigating the Renaissance," opening in the fall, and an exhibit of nineteenth-century works, "Sublimations: Art and Sensuality in the Nineteenth Century," already on view, are reinstallations of permanent works from the collection. Continuing are "The Mediated Object: Selections from the Eli Broad Collections," "France and the Portrait, 1799-1870," "Circa 1874: The Emergence of Impressionism," and "The Persistence of Memory: Continuity and Change in American Cultures." The Sackler offers "Tiepolo and his Circle: Drawings in American Collections," opening on October 12, the ongoing "Severan Silver Coinage," with recently acquired Roman imperial coins, and "Masterworks of East Asian Painting." At the Busch-Reisinger, "Anna and Bernhard Blume: Photo-Works" (with additional works displayed at the Fogg) opens September 14. The Harvard University Art Museums are open Monday through Saturday 10 to 5, and Sunday 1 to 5. Admission is $5; $4 for senior citizens; $3 for students; free under 18 and on Saturday mornings. For special tour reservations, call 496-8576.

The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, in Science Center B-06, is open Tuesday through Friday, 10 to 4. Call 495-2779 for exhibit information.

The Harvard Museum of Cultural and Natural History now encompasses the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Peabody Museum, and the Botanical, Geological, and Mineralogical Museums. Continuing on exhibit through the fall are "Modeling Nature: Slices of Glass History from the Collections," "Living with Ants and the Science of E.O. Wilson," and "Birthstones." Hours are 9 to 5 Monday through Saturday, and 1 to 5 on Sundays. Admission is $5 for adults; $4 for students and seniors; and $3 for children aged 3 to 13. Call 495-3045 for information.

The ART opens Punch and Judy Get Divorced.
The ART opens Punch and Judy Get Divorced.
The Harvard Semitic Museum offers the ongoing "The Pyramids and the Sphinx: 100 Years of American Archaeology at Giza." The museum is open 10 to 4 Monday through Friday, 1 to 4 on Sundays. Free admission. For museum information, call 495-4631.

"Women of Courage," an exhibit of photographs by Judith Sedwick based on the Black Women Oral History Project, opens at the Schlesinger Library on October 21. Call 495-8647 for specific.

Lectures and Programs

The education department of the Museum of Cultural and Natural History features a variety of children's programs based on the museum's exhibits. Programs on topics that include dinosaurs, bats, collections, beading, and the ancient Maya begin in October and take place after school and on weekends. For more information, or to be put on the museum's mailing list, call 495-2341.

The museum also offers programs for adults, including the Peabody Luncheon Lectures Series focusing on textiles of the world. Presentations take place on October 1 from 12-2, October 15 from 4-6, and October 29 from 12-2. Space is limited. Call 495-2269 for fees and information about travel programs.

The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, at 60 Garden Street, continues its Observatory Nights on the third Thursday of each month. The September 19 lecture, delivered by Saeqa Vrtilek, is entitled "Elementary, Enigmatic, Energetic, and Extreme: The Extraordinary Lives of X-ray Binary Stars." On October 17, Scott Kenyon discusses "Star Formation from the Outside In." The programs begin at 8 p.m.; doors open at 7:30. Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis, and parking is available. For details, call the observatory at 495-7461. Call 496-star to hear a weekly recorded guide to the New England night sky.

The Harvard University Art Museums hold gallery talks and lectures throughout the fall. Topics include "Masterworks of Ukiyo-e (Part 1)," by Anne Rose Kitagawa, assistant curator for Japanese art, on September 7 at 11:30 a.m. at the Sackler; "The Mediated Object: Selections from the Eli Broad Collections," with Lana Branton, art museums docent, on September 21 at 11:30 a.m. in the Fogg; "Sublimations: Art and Sensuality in the Nineteenth Century," with Sarah Kianovsky, assistant curator of paintings and sculpture, September 28 at 11:30 a.m. in the Fogg; "Anna and Bernhard Blume: Photo-Works," with Peter Nisbet, Daimler-Benz curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, October 5 at 11:30 a.m. in the Fogg; "The Mediated Object: Selections from the Eli Broad Collections," with Lana Branton, on October 6 at 2 p.m. in the Fogg; "Tiepolo and his Circle: Drawings in American Collections," with Bernard Aikema, guest curator and professor of art history, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands, October 19 at 11:30 a.m. in the Sackler; "Sublimations: Art and Sensuality in the Nineteenth Century," with Ivan Gaskell, Winthrop curator of paintings, on October 20 at 2 p.m. in the Fogg; "Masterworks of Ukiyo-e (Part 2)," with Anne Rose Kitagawa, on October 26 at 11:30 a.m. in the Sackler; "Anna and Bernhard Blume: Photo-Works," with Sara Krajewski, the 1996-97 Otto curatorial intern, on October 27 at 2 p.m. in the Fogg. Call 495-4544 for details.

On September 17 at 6 p.m. in the Sackler Auditorium, Bazon Brock, professor of aesthetics at the University of Wuppertal, Germany, delivers a lecture entitled "The Serenity of Failure: Anna and Bernhard Blume's Alternative History of German Avant-Gardism in the Twentieth Century." The lecture is followed by a reception and free viewing of the exhibit of the Blumes' works in the Fogg. There will be a second public lecture in conjunction with the Blume show, at 6 p.m. on October 24, in the Sackler Auditorium, delivered by Benjamin Buchloh, professor of art history at Barnard College. Call 496-8576 for information.

The Arnold Arboretum offers free tours on September 28, with special sightings of franklinia and witch hazel, and on October 26, the annual fall-color walk. To find out what's in bloom or confirm a tour's departure time, call general information at 524-1718, extension 773. The arboretum also offers classes ranging from identification of common New England plants to garden design. You may register for any of the Arboretum's programs by calling 524-1718, extension 162.

The music department sponsors several lecture series and colloquiums during the year. The fall samplings include "Singing and Reading: Thoughts on the Transmission of Medieval Music," with Professor Thomas Kelly (October 17 at 7 p.m., in Room 2, Paine Hall); "Music History and Theory: Disciplines in Crisis," by Professor Kevin Korsyn of the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (October 21 at 4:15 p.m., in the Davison Room, Paine Hall); and "Verdi's Artistic Message" with Professor Pierluigi Petrobelli of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani, Parma, Italy (October 28 at 4:30 p.m., in Paine Hall).

The Harvard Forest's trails are open during daylight hours seven days a week. The Fisher Museum is open weekdays 9-5, and on Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 4 p.m. through October. There is no admission charge but donations are encouraged. The Harvard Forest is in Petersham, Massachusetts. Call 495-4313 for directions.

Film

Herzog's film Aguirre, at the HFA in OCtober.
Herzog's film Aguirre, at the HFA in October.
Ten Taiwanese films from the 1950s to the 1990s make up the Harvard Film Archive's "Festival of Preservation-A Retrospective of Taiwan Films," scheduled from mid September to early October. Beginning in mid October there will be a major retrospective of Werner Herzog's films, including Boston-area premieres of Lessons of Darkness and Scream of Stone. Call 495-4700 to obtain up-to-date listings as well as information on repeat showings and ticket prices.

Music

In conjunction with the special exhibition "David Rabinowitch: Sculptures and Templates, 1968" the Harvard University Art Museums present the Boston Composers String Quartet on September 29 at 5:30 p.m. in the Fogg. Admission is $5; $4 for students, Harvard staff, and senior citizens; $3 for Friends of the Museum. Call the museum for more information at 495-8576.

The Office for the Arts presents "The Great Sanders Restoration Recital," a keyboard recital featuring four pianists-professor of music Robert Levin, professor emerita Luise Vosgerchian, Christopher Taylor '92, and Stephen Drury '77-as well as harsichordist and pianist Igor Kipnis '52. Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy Knowles and Office of the Arts director Myra Mayman are co-masters of ceremonies for the concert, on September 20 in, naturally, Sanders Theatre. Call 496-2222 for information.

The fall a cappella offerings include the Harvard-Radcliffe Callbacks on October 26 at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. Call 496-2222 for tickets.

There will be a pre-season undergraduate one-woman show September 26-28 at 8 p.m. in Agassiz Theatre when Kate deLima '97 presents her musical revue What More Do I Need? including songs by Weill, Gershwin, and Sondheim. For more information, call 495-8676.

Beginning October 18, tickets are available at the Holyoke Center box office for the Mendelssohn Quartet's free concert on November 1. The concert, in Paine Hall at 8 p.m., will feature Beethoven's opus 130 and opus 132. Call the music department at 495-2791 for more information.

Singer-songwriter Noel Paul Stookey, best known as Paul of the legendary folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, gives a free concert in Paine Hall on October 10. The 8 p.m. performance tops off a two-day residency by Mr. Stookey sponsored by Learning from Performers. For more information, call 495-8676.

Harvard Magazine does its best to insure accuracy in these events listings, but cannot accept responsibility for any errors. Please double-check all dates, times, and locations for events with their sponsoring organizations.

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