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The King Stag, by Carlo Gozzi, plays at the ART Photograph courtesy American Repertory Theatre

The American Repertory Theatre's new musical, Punch and Judy Get Divorced, by David and Ain Gordon, continues at the C. Walsh Theatre, 55 Temple Street, Boston, through November 10. At the Loeb, Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck begins previews November 22 and opens November 27, followed by Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author (previews from December 5, opens December 8), and Carlo Gozzi's The King Stag (previews from December 11, opens December 13). Call the ART box office at (617) 547-8300 for tickets and showtimes.

As part of their fortieth-anniversary celebration, the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players present The Pirates of Penzance. Evening shows are December 5-8, and 11-14 at 8 p.m.; matinees are December 8 and 14 at 2 p.m. Purchase tickets by calling 496-hrgs or 496-2222, or at the door at Agassiz Theatre one hour before show time. Special festivities on December 7 will honor the anniversary. For more information, call 496-hrgs.



At the Fogg, "Agency and Identity: African Art from the Teel Collection" opens on November 30. "Invaluable Prints" goes up December 14. "David Rabinowitch: Sculptures and Templates, 1968" continues through January 12. Ongoing exhibits include a show of early Italian Renaissance painting, "Investigating the Renaissance," "Sublimations: Art and Sensuality in the Nineteenth Century," "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," until December 15, in addition to "Severan Silver Coinage," "Masterworks of East Asian Painting," "Masterworks of Ukiyo-e" and "Coins of Alexander the Great." The Busch-Reisinger showcases "Anna and Bernhard Blume: Photo-Works" (with additional works displayed at the Fogg) through November 24. For information, call 495-9400.

Rare Slavic books and manuscripts, some dating to the twelfth century, go on display in the Widener Library lobby and mezzanine and the Amy Lowell Room of Houghton Library, starting in November, to celebrate the centennial year of Slavic studies at Harvard. Call 495-4065 for details.

The Bunting Institute shows "City Reflections, City Moods: Paintings and Works on Paper" by Suzanne Hodes at the Maurine and Robert Rothschild Gallery through December 14. Call 495-8212 for more information.

Exhibits at the Harvard Museum of Cultural and Natural History include "Modeling Nature: Slices of Glass History from the Collections," "Living with Ants and the Science of E.O. Wilson," and "Birthstones." Call 495-3045 for details.

Donor and saint, by a follower of Gerard David. Photograph bequest of George W. Harris in memory of John A. Harris, courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums

The Harvard Semitic Museum offers the ongoing "The Pyramids and the Sphinx: 100 Years of American Archaeology at Giza." For museum information, call 495-4631.



Choral Music. The holiday season is a goldrush for the choral music fan. On November 3 at 3 p.m. the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum perform Romantic works, sacred works of the Renaissance, and twentieth-century compositions in Sanders Theatre. Call 496-2222 for ticket information.

This season's a capella offerings include the Din and Tonics and Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones on November 9, the Krokodiloes and Radcliffe Pitches on November 23, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Opportunes on December 7. All at 8 p.m. in Sanders. Call 496-2222 for tickets.

The Harvard Glee Club presents its annual Harvard-Yale Football Concert on November 22 at 8 p.m. in Sanders. Call 495-5730 for details.

To honor the city's 3,000th anniversary, the Jewish Community Relations Council presents "In Praise of Jerusalem," an evening of poetry and song with the Harvard University Choir, the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Mizmor Shir, and the American Repertory Theatre, on December 2 at 8 p.m. in Sanders. Call 496-2222 for details.

The Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus sings Rossini's Stabat Mater December 8 at 8 p.m. in Sanders. Call 495-5730 for details.

The Christmas Holiday Concert, presented by the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, takes place at the First Church Congregational, Cambridge, on December 14 at 8 p.m. Call 495-5730 for more details.

The University Choir holds its annual carol services December 15 at 5 p.m. and December 16 at 8 p.m. Call the Memorial Church at 495-5508 for details.

Instrumental Music. The Harvard University Band features the music of Virgil Thompson and Leroy Anderson on November 1 at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. In Lowell Hall, at 8 p.m., the Harvard Wind Ensemble plays a tribute to Morton Gould on December 7 and the Harvard Jazz Band plays Billy Byers, Duke Ellington, and Jeffrey Friedman on December 14. Call 496-2263 for details.

The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra offers Beethoven and Shostakovich on their November 2 program and Milhaud, Ravel, and Berlioz on December 6. Both concerts are at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre and are preceded by a lecture one hour before the performance. Elliot Forbes speaks on November 2, Thomas Kelly on December 6. Call 496-2222 for tickets.

The Harvard Art Museums host a handful of concerts in November and December. On November 10, pianist Sergey Schepkin performs Bach's Goldberg Variations at 5:30 p.m. at the Fogg. In Adolphus Busch Hall, Heather Hinton Fowler gives an organ recital on November 17 at 3 p.m. and fortepianist Kenneth Drake plays sonatas by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven on November 18 at 8 p.m. And on December 15, at 5:30 p.m. at the Fogg, Musica Sacra presents a concert of Flemish and Italian sacred choral music in conjunction with the exhibition "Investigating the Renaissance."

Gunther Schuller conducts at a concert honoring composer Milton Babbitt's eightieth birthday. The concert, on November 11 at 8 p.m. in Paine Hall, includes a performance of Babbitt's Septet, But Equal. Call 496-6013 for details.

Contemporary music is the focus of two events at Paine Hall. The Harvard Computer Music Center composers present their works November 17. Music by Harvard graduate and undergraduate composers forms the program on December 8. Both concerts at 8 p.m. Call 496-6013, the concert line, for details.

Pianists Robert Levin and Malcom Bilson perform an all-Schubert program to benefit the graduate scholarship fund on December 12 at 8 p.m. in Paine Hall. Call 495-4989 for tickets.



The Werner Herzog retrospective at the Harvard Film Archive continues through mid-November. Also queued up, a series commemorating the anniversary of the Mexican Revolution; a talk by Rob Nilsson '61 about his film Chalk, a project of homeless inner-city residents of San Francisco; a tribute to New England animator Yvonne Anderson; and the screening of a documentary on Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, entitled To Make a Film for Me Is To Live. For more details, call 495-4700.



The Harvard Art Museums offer gallery talks, free with the price of admission to the museums. Late autumn brings tours of "Investigating the Renaissance" (at the Fogg, November 9 at 11:30 a.m. and November 17 at 2 p.m.); "Tiepolo and His Circle" (at the Sackler, November 10 at 2 p.m. and November 23 at 11:30 a.m.); "Anna and Bernhard Blume Photo-Works" (at the Busch-Reisinger, November 16 at 11:30 a.m.); and "Masterworks of East Asian Painting" (at the Sackler, November 24 at 2 p.m.). Call 495-9400 for specifics.

Among the lectures offered this fall by Bunting Institute fellows are: "The Emergence of Modern Subjectivity in American Women's Poetry, 1850-1900" by Paula Bennett (November 6); "Writing On/Off the Body: Contemporary Constructions of Elizabeth Bishop and Wallace Stevens" by Celeste Goodridge (November 13); "Negotiating Nature: Mothers, Babies, and Breastfeeding in the Late Twentieth-Century United States," by Linda M. Blum (December 4); and "Cellular Defense Against Cancer," by Kunxin Luo (December 11). Call 495-8212 for details.

Free lectures hosted by the Music Department and held in Paine Hall include Gunther Schuller speaking on the music of Milton Babbitt, November 12 at 7 p.m., and Pierluigi Petrobelli delivering the last two lectures in his series on Verdi, November 18 and 25 at 4:30 p.m. Call 496-6013 for details.

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