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SPECIAL EVENTS. 1992 Olympic silver medalist Paul Wylie '91 hosts An Evening With Champions in this his fifteenth year of participating in the annual fundraiser for the Jimmy Fund and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Tickets to performances, on October 23 at 8 p.m., October 24 at 8 p.m., and October 25 at 1 p.m., are $20 for adults, and $10 for children, senior citizens, and undergraduates. Call (617) 493-8172 for details.

Among last year's winners of the Ig Nobel Prize were a team of neuroscientists who studied the effect on brain waves of chewing different flavors of gum. Don't miss the eighth annual celebration of research that "cannot or should not be reproduced" (see "Annals of Improbable Litigation") when Sanders Theatre is home to the ceremonies on October 8 at 7:30 p.m. Call 491-4344 for more information.

EXHIBITIONS. At the Fogg, Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings opens October 3; Prints and Privileges: Regulating the Image in Sixteenth-Century Italy opens October 17; and Brice Marden: Work Books closes September 6. Continuing exhibits include Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Sketches in Clay; The Art of Identity: African Sculpture from the Teel Collection; France and the Portrait, 1799-1870; Sublimations: Art and Sensuality in the Nineteenth Century; Investigating the Renaissance; and The Persistence of Memory: Continuity and Change in American Cultures. At the Sackler, Symbol and Substance: The Elaine Ehrenkranz Collection of Japanese Lacquer Boxes opens September 26; works by Goya, Manet, Picasso, de Kooning, and Rauschenberg, among others, remain on display in Touchstone: 200 Years of Artists' Lithographs; also remaining on view are Empress, Goddess, State: Depictions of Women on Ancient and Byzantine Coinage; Coins of Alexander the Great; and a wall drawing by Sol
LeWitt, in the lobby. At the Busch-Reisinger, German Marks, closing September 27, showcases more than 200 drawings and prints by East and West German artists; Positioning Nature and Industry: A Selection of Contemporary Art from the Busch-Reisinger Museum continues until October 11; A Laboratory of Modernity: Aspects of Art in Weimar Germany opens October 31.

In addition to specialized gallery tours (see "Programs," below), the museums offer free general docent tours daily: at the Fogg at 11 a.m., at the Busch-Reisinger at 1 p.m., and at the Sackler at 2 p.m. There is free admission to the museums on Wednesdays and on Saturday mornings. For further information, call 495-9400.

The visual and environmental studies department shows off the work of visiting faculty members at the Carpenter Center beginning September 10. Participating artists include animator Sheldon Cohen, video artist Joan Jonas, photographer Susan Meiselas, painter Joe Zucker, and mixed-media specialist Elaine Reichek. Open from 9 a.m. to midnight, Monday through Saturday, and noon to 11 p.m. on Sunday. Call 495-3251 for details.

The Friends' Gallery of the Museum of Cultural and Natural History closes Exploring the Antarctic Landscape: Paintings by Lucia deLeiris on October 31. Viewing hours are daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; on Sundays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Call 495-3045 for details.

The Semitic Museum offers a glimpse into an ancient Mesopotamian town in Nuzi and the Hurrians: Fragments from a Forgotten Past. Open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays, and closed Saturdays. Call 495-4631 for specifics.

Only a few more weeks to count the "Ninas" at the Harvard Theatre Collection's exhibit of theater-going caricaturist Al Hirschfeld's work: on display until September 18 in the Pusey Library. Call 495-2445 for further information.

THEATER. Opening the American Repertory Theatre's fall season on September 18 is Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive, the 1998 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Robert Brustein's play about method-acting guru Lee Strasberg, Nobody Dies on Friday, runs from September 30 until October 10. The Marriage of Bette and Boo, by Christopher Durang '71, begins performances on October 16. For details, call the A.R.T. box office at 547-8300 or visit their website at "www.amrep.org".

FILM. Fall programming at the Harvard Film Archive includes a series entitled Black Cinema, the work of Japanese filmmaker Susumu Hani, and a run of classics of the silent screen and film noir. October looks back at the work of German filmmaker Wim Wenders; screenings include Wings of Desire; Paris, Texas; The American Friend; and Tokyo-ga, with a personal appearance by Wenders at a date to be announced. Call 495-4700 for up-to-date schedules and ticket prices.

MUSIC. Humor, choreography, and close harmony in Sanders Theatre: the mix can only mean undergraduate a cappella. First up are the Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones, on October 17, then the Harvard-Radcliffe Callbacks, on October 23, both concerts at 8 p.m. Call 496-2222 for further information.

Join in performing Harvard football songs, and enjoy the music of Gershwin and Bernstein, when the Harvard University Band, Jazz Band, and Wind Ensemble hold their annual pre-Dartmouth football game concert, on October 30 at 8 p.m. Call 496-2222 for additional details.

Strains of Mozart, Schumann, Stravinsky, and Yannatos fill Sanders Theatre on October 31 at 8 p.m., when the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra starts its season. Call 496-2222 for tickets.

The Memorial Church and Harvard University Art Museums sponsor a series of free noontime organ recitals every Thursday during fall term. Performers, playing on the Flentrop Organ in Adolphus Busch Hall, include Harvard University choirmaster Murray Forbes Somerville (October 1); Brian Jones, of the Trinity Church, Boston (October 8); Jane Hardenbergh, of Cambridge, Massachusetts (October 15); David Szanto, of the New England Conservatory of Music (October 22); Douglas Bush, of Brigham Young University (October 29); Jared Johnson, of the Memorial Church (November 5); Nancy Granert, of Emmanuel Church, Boston, and the Memorial Church (November 12); Ed Jones, of the Memorial Church (November 19); and members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Organ Society (December 10). Call 495-5508 for more information.

Also at Adolphus Busch Hall, a festival of German organ music kicks off on October 25 at 3 p.m. with a benefit performance for the Sunday Celebrity Series sponsored by the Memorial Church: Joseph Payne playing the music of Johann Pachelbel. On October 26 at 8 p.m., Germany's Irene Greulich, organist of Wenzelskirche, in Naumburg, discusses the restoration project of the Wenzelskirche's Hildebrandt Organ, the only large organ that Bach himself designed and dedicated. Tickets for each concert are $10, $8 for art museum friends and senior citizens, and $5 for students. Call 495-5508 for further details.

Blodgett Artists in Residence the Mendelssohn Quartet play Schubert's "Death and the Maiden," among other works, on October 30 at 8 p.m. in Paine Hall. Free passes are available at the Sanders Theatre box office, beginning on October 16. Call 496-2222 for more information.

"Celebrating 35 Years at Harvard: Chamber Music of James Yannatos," honors the longtime conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra; in Paine Hall at 8 p.m. on October 16. Call 496-2222 for ticket information.

On October 14 at 8 p.m. violist Nokothula Ngwenyama and pianist Reiko Uchida inaugurate the Houghton Library Chamber Music Series with a concert program including works of Kreisler, Bach, and Shostakovich. Call 495-2449 for tickets.

PROGRAMS. The music department's free colloquium series begins with Professor Linda Rae Brown's lecture, "The Heart of a Woman: Florence B. Price's Symphonies in the Context of the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances." Next up is Professor Arthur Berger's talk on "The Octatonic Scale Reexamined." For more information, call 496-6013.

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology offers a luncheon-lecture series "Makers and Markets: Native American Arts of the Southwest." The luncheons, on October 7 and 21 and November 4, take place from noon to 2 p.m. and cost $30 each, $25 for Peabody Museum members. Call 495-2269 for further details.

In conjunction with the exhibit Symbol and Substance: The Elaine Ehrenkranz Collection of Japanese Lacquer Boxes, experts ruminate on "The Art of Japanese Lacquer" at the M. Victor Leventritt Symposium, free and open to the public. Complimentary parking is available in the Broadway Garage for those attending the event, on September 26 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., in the Sackler Museum lecture hall. Call 495-4544 for more details.

Among the Harvard University art museum lecture series offered this year are "Art and Patronage in the Islamic World," held on Thursday evenings at 6 p.m. beginning September 17, in the Sackler lecture hall; and "The Artist, the Printer, and the Lithograph," comprising two evening lectures, on October 6 and 13 at 6 p.m. in the Sackler lecture hall, and a day trip to Fox Graphics in Merrimac, on October 20 at 9 a.m., for demonstrations of various lithographic techniques. Call the HUAM Friends' office, at 495-4544, for details about fees and to register.

Admission to the Harvard University Art Museums often includes exhibit-specific gallery talks. Offerings highlight shows like the exhibit of postwar East and West German prints and drawings, German Marks, with assistant curator Emilie Norris on September 5 at 11:30 a.m. and September 6 at 2 p.m.; Touchstone, with curator of prints Marjorie Cohn on September 12 at 11:30 a.m. and October 25 at 2 p.m.; Ellsworth Kelly Panel Paintings, with art museums docent Lara Branton on September 26 at 11:30 a.m.; Behind the Line, with research assistant Edward Saywell on October 4 at 2 p.m., and with assistant curator of drawings Miriam Stewart on October 24 at 11:30 a.m. Call 495-9400 for further information.

Learn about scientific drawing at a Museum of Cultural and Natural History class, beginning on October 5, on botanical illustration, drawing from both the glass flowers and natural specimens. The MCNH also offers a special Halloween program for all ages called Haunted Happenings, with hands-on activities and special tours. Call 496-6972 for information about these and other programs.

On September 20, the Arnold Arboretum hosts its eighteenth annual plant sale (at the Case Estates, 135 Wellesley Street, in Weston, Massachusetts; see Treasure, July-August 1998). Hold the date of October 19 as well, for a free tour of the arboretum grounds, highlighting fall color and autumn fruit. For more details about these events, or the Arboretum's classes--from pruning evergreens to historic landscape preservation--call 524-1718.

Held on the third Thursday of each month, the free observatory nights at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics each include a lecture, a short film or video, and telescopic viewing from the observatory roof, weather permitting. On September 17, Jim Davis, of the Center for Astrophysics, delivers a talk entitled "Taking Measure of Our Planet: GPS Surveys Earth." Call 495-7461 for details about the October 15 program, or call 496-star for a recorded guide to the night sky.

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