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New EnglandREGIONALSECTION ; ; • April 20, 8 p.m. Extracurriculars “Voyage to the Center of the Milky Way” (Doors open at 7:30; seating is unreserved.) Savor the sunshine and dabble in a vari- Harvard Krokodiloes • ety of activities in and around Harvard March 17, 8 p.m. MUSIC COLLEGE HARVARD OF WS Square this spring, ranging from a string www.fas.harvard.edu/~tickets/ Sanders Theatre of orchestral concerts and choral perfor- 617-496-2222; Sanders Theatre www.fas.harvard.edu/~tickets/ mances to acclaimed Russian ﬁlms and The a cappella group celebrate its sixtieth 617-496-2222 exhibits of eclectic photomontages and anniversary with a gala public concert • March 3, 8 p.m vibrant watercolors. featuring the current ensemble as well as The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra o≠ers ©FELLO , AND PRESIDENT alumni Kroks. Respighi’s “Pines of Rome,” Dvor˘ak’s SEAS ONAL Arts First Symphony No. 7, and Mozart’s Piano Mozart Celebration • May 4-7 Concerto No. 24 in C Minor. • http://hcs.harvard.edu/bachsoc/perfor- 617-495-8699; [email protected]. March 4, 8 p.m. MUSEUMS ART UNIVERSITY mances.html Plan ahead to enjoy the performance fair, The Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musi- Paine Hall dance festival, and colorful parade featur- cum performs Mozart’s C Minor Mass • March 4, 8 p.m. ing undergraduate talent. Playwright Chris- with the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music. The Bach Society Orchestra celebrates topher Durang ’71 is the 2006 Arts Medalist. • April 21, 8 p.m AVID MATHEWS/HARVARD MATHEWS/HARVARD AVID the 250th birthday of Mozart by perform- The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra pre- EDICINE ing his Symphony No. 40 in G minor as NATURE AND SCIENCE sents Tchaikovsky’s “Suite from Swan well as Sinfonietta No. 1, a tribute to him, The Harvard-Smithsonian Center Lake,” Wagner’s Prelude and Liebestod by Hector Villa-Lobos. for Astrophysics from Tristan und Isolde, and the Brahms Vio- Harvard Glee Club www.cfa.harvard.edu/events.html lin Concerto, featuring Stefan Jackiw ’07. COUNTWAY LIBRARY OF M OF LIBRARY COUNTWAY ICCARELLO/ARTS FIRST; D www.fas.harvard.edu/~tickets/ 617-495-7461. Phillips Auditorium, • April 28, 8 p.m 617-496-2222; Sanders Theatre 60 Garden Street. The Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus sings an • March 10, 8 p.m. Stargaze after the lecture (weather per- all-Baroque concert featuring Vivaldi’s The Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe mitting) during free observatory nights, “Gloria” and choral music by Handel. COURTESY OF JOANNE C Choral Society present their “Spring Tour on the third Thursday of every month. • April 30, 7:30 p.m A. FRANCIS THE IN LIBRARY Preview: From Canny to Uncanny,” music • March 16, 8 p.m. The Boston Chamber Music Society pre- from the Renaissance to the present. “The Search for Extraterrestrial Life” sents a program that includes pieces by

Left to right: A performer in the Arts First 2005 Dance Festival; Highland Light, 1930, by Edward Hopper (1882-1967), from the forthcoming exhibi- FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: tion American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950, at the Fogg Museum; oncologist Rita Marie Kelley, M.D., circa 1925, from the Countway Library MEDICAL HARVARD THE . Harvard Magazine 24A Calendar.final 2/14/06 12:22 PM Page 24B

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Ravel, Mahler, and Schubert. Lowell Lecture Hall �� • March 3, 7:30 p.m. � The Kuumba Singers of Harvard o≠er “Soul Speak: Black Arts as Social Dialogue.”

�� THEATER �� The American Repertory Theatre �� www.amrep.org; 617-547-8300 �� • Through March 25 Romeo and Juliet. Renowned Israeli director �� Gadi Roll makes his debut at the ART �� with Shakespeare’s classic love story. �� • March 25-April 23 Orpheus X. Composer Rinde Eckert and �� director Robert Woodru≠ present a �� musical retelling of the legends. �� Hasty Pudding Theatricals �� www.hastypudding.org �� Zero Arrow Theatre (at the ART) • Through March 19 �� Set in the 1930s, the Pudding’s 158th �� show, Some Like It Yacht, unfolds aboard a �� transatlantic cruise liner that is mysteri- ously hijacked, leaving its crew of intrigu- �� ing characters to seek the truth. �� EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS �� Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology �� www.peabody.harvard.edu; 617-495-1027 �� • Opening April 19, 5:30 p.m. �� A Noble Pursuit: The Duchess of Meck- lenburg Collection from Iron Age Slovenia. �� The exhibit tells the story of an unconven- �� tional woman while displaying many of the European artifacts she excavated prior �� to World War I. A reception follows a �� 5:30 p.m. lecture by Gloria Polizzotti Greis, author of a book on the topic. �� • March 16, 5:30 p.m Diet, Demography, & Society: A 200,000- Year Record from the Mediterranean Basin. Lecture by Mary C. Stiner, associ- ate professor of anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson. Yenching Institute, 2 Divinity Avenue • March 22, 5:30 p.m Tesseracts Between Futures and Past: Photography in Modern Korean History, 1900-1953. A reception with and lecture by Hyung Gu Lynn, chair in Korean research, University of British Columbia. Yenching Institute, 2 Divinity Avenue • April 12, 5:30 p.m Isotopic Silk Road. A reception with and

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lecture by Noreen Tuross, Clay professor of the University Art Museums. scientific archaeology at Harvard. • Opening April 8 Yenching Institute, 2 Divinity Avenue American Watercolors and Pas- Continuing: Reconfiguring Korea show- tels, 1875-1950. For the first cases former American GI Roger Mar- time in decades, 50 of Harvard’s shut’s photographs documenting U.S. re- most magnificent watercolors go construction e≠orts and civilian life in on public display, including im- Pusan in the 1950s. ages by John Singer Sargent, Busch-Reisinger Museum Winslow Homer, Edward Hop- 617-495-2317 per, and James McNeill Whistler. • March 11-May 21 Sackler Museum Tempo, Tempo! The Photomontages of 617-495-9400/9422 The Farewell, at the Marianne Brandt. This presentation of Continuing: Frank Stella 1958 Film Archive more than 30 images from European and features 18 experimental works by

American public and private collections one of the nation’s leading postwar artists. 617-495-4700 ÜTTE showcases the artist’s dynamic pictorial Continuing: The Tablet and the Pen: • Mondays in March, 7 p.m. investigations of technology, gender roles, Drawings from the Islamic World ex- The films of Russian director Andrei and entertainment culture. plores drawing as an independent artistic Tarkovsky, who won international ac- Fogg Art Museum medium with a special focus on Iran, claim with Solyaris and Nostalghia. COURTESY OF JAN SCH 617-495-9400/9422 India, and Turkey. • Mondays in April, 7 p.m. • Through March 12 Screenings of the films of Ousmane Sem- French Drawings and Paintings. Ap- FILM bène, one of Africa’s best-known direc- proximately 35 eighteenth- and nine- The Harvard Film Archive tors. Includes Emitai, Xala, and Moolade. teenth-century works are on display for www.harvardfilmarchive.org • April 21-23 the first time since they were donated to Visit the website for complete listings. Visiting professor of visual arts and envi-

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�� NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL SECTION ronmental studies Jan Schütte screens and discusses several of his ﬁlms, including Bye Bye America, The Farewell, and his most recent work, SuperTex. Sanders Theatre • March 3 and 7, 8:15 p.m Premiere of Bachelor’s College, which explores the toll of World War I on a group of young men. It stars Harvard un- dergraduates and was ﬁlmed on campus. Produced by Michael Van Devere.

LIBRARIES �� Countway Medical Library �� www.countway.med.harvard.edu �� 617-432-4807 �� • March 1 The Role of Jews in the History of Medi- cine. Scholars of medieval history and Jewish studies speak at a symposium that highlights the rare Hyams collection of ��

�� Stumm Ad Final�� 10/6/04 12:25 PM Page 1 What can you do today to secure a comfortable Roman bowl at the Peabody Museum retirement? of Archaeology and Ethnology Jewish medical texts, including one of the You have one life, one set of values, one chance to get it ﬁrst printings of Maimonides. The related

exhibit is on display through March 3. HILLEL BURGER right, and lots of questions along the way. I’ve worked on • March 13 through April 20 hundreds of financial plans, and have the experience to Changing the Face of Medicine: Cele- brating America’s Women Physicians. help you find the answers. www.countway.harvard.edu/rarebooks/- awm/shtml; 617-432-6206 This nationally touring exhibit looks at J. HANSSTUMM Elizabeth Blackwell, the ﬁrst woman to Certified Financial Planner TM Professional earn an M.D., as well as others who have struggled to gain access to the medical Stumm Financial Services profession during the last 200 years. Houghton Library 31 St. James Avenue, Suite 801 www.hcl.harvard.edu/libraries Boston, Massachusetts 02116 617-495-2441 • March 15-May 26 617-338-1635 x1 In celebration of the 400th anniversary of [email protected] the publication of Don Quixote, the exhibi- tion displays a varied selection of the www.stummfinancial.com works of Cervantes to be found among Securities offered through Linsco/Private Ledger Houghton’s holdings. Member NASD/SIPC J. Hans Stumm, CLU, ChFC, CFP

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• Through March 18 Disbound and Dispersed showcases 60 “leaf books” with manuscript and printed leaves ranging in date from the twelfth through the twentieth centuries. • March 30-May 26 Of Current Interest: Recent Research on Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts highlights manuscripts that have been cited in scholarly literature in recent years and demon- strates the study Image by Marianne Brandt, at the of the humanities Busch-Reisinger during the Mid- Museum dle Ages and the Renaissance. Pusey Library 617-495-2413 • Through March 31 Mapping Califor- nia as an Island features a selection of French, Dutch, German and English maps and atlases, including the ﬁrst depiction, in 1622, of the west coast of North America. ART MUSEUMS • Through April 21 British Theatrical Caricatures from Hogarth to Cruikshank showcases the

lively disputes, scandals, and personalities HARVARD UNIVERSITY of the British stage as satirized in 100 prints by renowned eighteenth-century artists and their lesser-known contempo- raries.

LECTURES The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study www.radcli≠e.edu; 617-495-8212 • March 14,4 p.m. “Flights from Attack and Atrocity: The �� Impact of War-Induced Violence against Women,” by Irene Khan, secretary gen- �� eral of Amnesty International. �� Cronkhite living room, 6 Ash Street �� • April 6, 4:30 p.m. �� “Gender, Genes, and Genesis,” by Colum- bia Law School professor Patricia Wil- �� liams. �� Askwith Lecture Hall, Radcli≠e Yard �� Events listings also appear in the Univer- �� isty Gazette, accessible via this magazine’s website, www.harvardmagazine.com. ��

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