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• April 26 at 8 p.m. The Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Extracurriculars Society, and Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum present Haydn’s The Creation. Special events American Repertory Theater • April 27 at 8 p.m. http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/arts www.americanrepertorytheater.org The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra offers

617-495-8676 617-547-8300 (box office) works by Mozart and Mendelssohn. s

• • eum April 25-28 617-495-2668 (general information) May 3 at 8 p.m. s u The annual Arts First Festival offers dance, • Through March 17 The Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus performs rt M theater, music, and other student and facul- The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Wil- Carl Orff’sCarmina Burana.

ty performances—and honors the 2013 Arts liams’s classic stars Cherry Jones, among arvard A

Medalist: actor, screenwriter, and producer others. Loeb Drama Center. he H ; T s

Matt Damon ’92. • Opening April 16 The Harvard Film Archive ic s • April 25-26 Beowulf—A Thousand Years of Baggage http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa

http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/ reimagines the tale with original music that 617-495-4700 trophy

crossing-borders weaves together lieder, cabaret, jazz, and • March 15-24 or As 617-495-8600 electronica. At Oberon. King Hu and The Art of Wuxia highlights The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study the Chinese director’s sophisticated work enter f

conference, “Crossing Borders: Immigration music with swordplay, choreography, and editing onian C s and Gender in the Americas,” features aca- • March 8 and April 19 at 8 p.m. in martial-arts cinema. demics, practitioners, and artists. Registra- http://www.music.fas.harvard.edu/calen-

tion required. Radcliffe Gym. dar.html; 617-495-2791 exhibitions & events arvard-Smith Performances by the Blodgett artists-in-

Theater residence, the Chiara Quartet www.harvardartmuseums.org rchive; H • March 28 through April 7 John Knowles Paine Concert Hall. 617-495-9400 http://www.hrgsp.org/happeningnow.htm Sanders Theatre Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/boxoffice http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/boxoffice • Continuing: In Harmony: The Norma 627-496-2222 617-496-2222 Jean Calderwood Collection of Islam- Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Play- • April 6 at 8 p.m. ic Art showcases 150 objects, including t to right: harvardt to right: Film A ers present Utopia Limited; or, The Flowers of The Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Mu­si­cum glazed ceramics, illustrated manuscripts, f

Progress. Agassiz Theatre. performs Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. and lacquerware. From le Left to right: From Come Drink With Me, at the Harvard Film Archive; “Dark Cloud Encounters,” at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; “Rustam Mourns the Dying Suhrab,” from a manuscript of the Shahnama, by Firdawsi, at the Harvard Art Museums

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Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology www.peabody.harvard.edu; 617-496-1027 Talks at the Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street • April 5 at 6 p.m. “Divination Through the History of Dream- ing,” by Kimberley C. Patton, Harvard Di- RETHINKBALLET vinity School professor of the comparative and historical study of religion SPRING 2013 • April 18 at 6 p.m. “Perfect Model: The Past, Present, and Fu- ture of Prediction,” by David Orrell, scien- tist and author of The Future of Everything: The Science of Prediction Harvard Museum of Natural History www.hmnh.harvard.edu; 617-495-3045 Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford St. The Boston Opera House • March 28 at 6 p.m. “River. Space. Design Towards a New Ur- All Kylián ban Water Culture,” by Stuttgart University professor Antje Stokman March 7–17 • April 4 at 6 p.m. Celebrate the opening of the renovated Earth The Sleeping Beauty and Planetary Science Gallery with a lecture March 22–April 7 by Francis A. Macdonald, assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences. Chroma Nature and science May 2–12 The Arnold Arboretum www.arboretum.harvard.edu; 617-384-5209 Coppélia Check the website for more classes, lec- May 16–26 tures, tours, and events. • April 8, 7-8 p.m. Swarthmore College biology professor Scott Gilbert reveals “The New You: How Symbio- Packages start at $135, Tickets from $29 • 617.695.6955 sis Studies Have Undercut Biological Views www.bostonballet.org of Individuality.” The Harvard-Smithsonian Center Corina Gill and Paulo Arrais by Gene Schiavone for Astrophysics www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/mon.html 617-495-7461; 60 Garden Street Minot DeBlois Advisors LLC Observatory night lectures with night-sky viewing, weather permitting, on March 21 thoughtful and disciplined investment advisory services and April 18 • April 19 (rain date April 20), 8-10 p.m. “Sidewalk Astronomy,” part of the Cam- bridge Science Festival, offers viewings of the moon, stars, and planets from telescopes set up in Central and Harvard Squares. Dedicated Investment Management • Consistent Strategy • Accessible and Transparent Please contact Catherine Smith ’83 or Robert G. Bannish ’85 for information. Events listings also appear in the University 50 Congress Street, Boston • www.minotdeblois.com • 617-557-7407 Gazette, accessible via this magazine’s web- Individual Accounts and IRAs • Trusts • Endowments • Foundations site, www.harvardmagazine.com.

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