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Mark your calendars now for May 1 to 4 and the fifth annual ArtsFirst festival, with 2,000 Harvard and Radcliffe students performing and exhibiting creative work in more than 223 events. The weekend peaks with the presentation of the Harvard Arts Medal to singer, songwriter, and activist Bonnie Raitt '72. Call (617) 496-8699 for more details.

Catch the annual CityStep dance show April 11 at 7:30 p.m. and April 12 at 2 and 7:30. Call 493-2272 or 493-3255 for details.

Cambridge has Me and My Galaxy, Hasty Pudding Theatricals #149, until March 18. Call 495-5205 for ticket information.

At the American Repertory Theatre, Woyzeck runs through March 16, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari through March 22. David Mamet's The Old Neighborhood premieres on April 4 at the Hasty Pudding Theatre. For tickets or information call 547-8300.

The Lowell House Opera offers Verdi's Rigoletto on March 5, 7, 8, 12, 14, and 15. Call 495-2663 for tickets.

The Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players present The Sorcerer in Agassiz Theatre from April 17 to April 26. Call 496-hrgs for information about performance times and ticket prices.

At the Fogg, Fragments of Antiquity: Drawing upon Greek Vases opens on March 15, and From Lowlife to Rustic Idyll: The Peasant Genre in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings and Prints opens March 29. At the Sackler, "Sewn Together by Peace of Mind": Islamic Album Pages

A 1931 poster extolling polytechnic schools, from Building the Collective, at the Busch-Reisinger. Courtesy of Merrill C. Berman Collection

from Harvard's Collections debuts on March 29. At the Busch-Reisinger (with additional works displayed at the Sackler), Building the Collective: Soviet Graphic Design 1917-1937 runs until March 30. For information, call 495-9400.

Ongoing exhibits at the Museum of Cultural and Natural History include Birthstones, Modeling Nature, and Living with Ants and the Science of E.O. Wilson. The museum also offers a virtual exhibit, Against the Winds, at "https://www.fas.harvard.edu/~peabody/mcnh_running". For further information, call 495-3045.

CHORAL MUSIC. The Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra offer an evening of Brahms on April 18 at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. Call 495-5730 for details.

In addition, the Choral Society celebrates women's choral singing on March 1, and the Glee Club hosts "The Festival of Men's Choruses" on April 5. Monteverdi forms the program for the Collegium Musicum's March 7 concert, while the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus offers an evening of Brahms and Poulenc on April 27. All at 8 p.m. in Sanders. Call 496-2222 for tickets.

Undergraduate a capella groups also converge on Sanders: the Veritones on March 8, the Opportunes and the Callbacks on April 4, the Radcliffe Pitches on April 11, and the Harvard Din & Tonics on April 25. All concerts begin at 8 p.m. Call 496-2222 for specifics.

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC. On April 11, the Mendelssohn Quartet, the Blodgett Artists in Residence, concertize with guest artists: cellist Laurence Lesser and violist James Durham. Free passes are available two weeks before the performance. Call 495-2663 for details.

In Paine Hall, on April 5 at 8 p.m., the Harvard Group for New Music presents a free concert of music by Harvard graduate and undergraduate composers. Call 496-6013 for specifics.

The Harvard University Art Museums offer a concert, on March 16 at 5:30 p.m., of Massenet, Fauré, and Debussy by piano duo Noël Lee and Christian Ivaldi in conjunction with the Fogg exhibit Sublimations. On April 20, The Flute's Pleasure Garden, a trio, will perform in conjuntion with the show From Lowlife to Rustic Idyll. Both concerts take place at the Fogg Art Museum. Call 495-4544 for details.

The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra offers a 'Pops' concert, to benefit Phillips Brooks House, in Sanders Theatre on March 16 at 3 p.m. Call 496-2222 for tickets.

Lowell Hall shows off the Harvard Wind Ensemble in a concert, on March 15 at 8 p.m., of works by guest composer Hale Smith. Call 496-6013 for details.

The Harvard University Jazz Band celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary with a concert of works originally composed for the band. At 8 p.m. on April 12 in Sanders Theatre; call 496-2222 for details.

The Houghton Library Chamber Music series' final performances are March 13, with baroque guitarist Hopkinson Smith, and April 16, with piano duo Jong Hwa Park and Jong Gyung Park. Both at 8 p.m.; call 495-2449 for more information.

The Harvard Film Archive schedule includes a retrospective of films by Mizoguchi; the Boston premiere of Vietnamese-born filmmaker Trin T. Minh-ha's A Tale of Love; and an evening with renowned Canadian animator Caroline Leaf. For specific dates and times, call 495-4700.

The Arnold Arboretum offers free monthly tours, on March 22 and April 26; classes; and a lecture series, "Reading the American Landscape." For lecture series details, call 566-1689, ext. 220. For specifics about other Arboretum programs, call 524-1718.

The Bunting Institute presents many lectures and colloquiums. Call 495-8212 to get a complete lecture schedule, or to ask about brown-bag lunches with institute fellows.

The Museum of Cultural and Natural History offers a free gallery talk entitled "Rocks from Mars?" on March 5 at 6 p.m. with Carl Francis, associate curator of the Mineralogical Museum. Space is limited; call 496-6972 for information about this talk or any of the museum's programs.

The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics offers observatory nights on the third Thursday of each month. On March 20 Jane Luu discusses "The Origins of Comets"; on April 17 Mark Reid speaks on "Finding the Center of Our Galaxy." Lectures start at 8 p.m.; doors open at 7:30. Call 495-7461 for details, or 496-star for a recorded guide to the night sky.

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