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General Philip Sheridan, coming to the Fogg. NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

NOTA BENE. On February 28, in Sanders Theatre, the Harvard Foundation presents Cultural Rhythms, its annual day-long arts festival celebrating Harvard's ethnic diversity. For details, call (617) 496-2222.

MUSIC. January finds student musicians otherwise engaged, but once February arrives, a cappella is in the air at Sanders Theatre. The Harvard Krokodiloes sing on February 14, the Harvard-Radcliffe Opportunes on the 20th, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones on the 27th. All at 8 p.m. Call 496-2222 for tickets and further information.

The Harvard University Art Museums present a concert of Civil War songs, with baritone Timothy Jones and pianist Jeffrey Goldberg, in conjunction with the exhibition Mathew Brady's Portraits (see below). At 5:30 p.m. on February 1 at the Fogg. Call 495-4544 for further information.

The Houghton Library Chamber Music Series presents an evening of German lieder, with mezzo-soprano Mitsuko Shirai and pianist Hartmut Höll, on February 10 at 8 p.m. Call 495-2449 for tickets.

THEATER. At the American Repertory Theatre, The Bacchae continues in repertory through January 15, Peter Pan and Wendy through January 22. A new production of The Taming of the Shrew debuts January 30, followed by Bertolt Brecht's In the Jungle of Cities on February 20. For tickets, call the box office at 547-8300.

It's Paradise Lost and Found for the Hasty Pudding Theatricals' 150th anniversary offering, opening February 18. Call 495-5205 for further details or to order tickets.

FILM. The January and February offerings at the Harvard Film Archive include a docudrama on the life of August Strindberg, Soviet silent films, a series exploring how societies address genocide and human-rights violations, and another on approaches to autobiography in contemporary film and video. Call 495-4700 for the full schedule and ticket prices.

Have you admired a Kronosaurus recently? Try the Museum of Cultural and Natural History. JEROME STERN

PROGRAMS AND LECTURES. Musicologist Joseph Kerman, the 1997-98 Norton Lecturer, continues his "Concerto Conversations" on "Virtuosity/Virtù" (February 11) and "Diffusion: Concerto Textures" (February 25). At 5 p.m. in Paine Hall. Call 496-6013 for more information.

The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics hosts observatory nights at 8 p.m. on January 15 ("Astronomy on Ice: Observing from the South Pole") and February 19 ("Rogue Planets and the Missing Mass"). Call 495-7461 for details about the lectures, or call 496-star for a recorded guide to the night sky.

Free monthly tours at the Arnold Arboretum continue, on January 24 ("Highlights of the Winter Landscape") and February 28 ("Winter Blossoms of the Vernal Witch Hazel"). Call 524-1718, ext. 136, for further information.

EXHIBITIONS. At the Fogg, Mathew Brady's Portraits: Images as History, Photography as Art, a traveling exhibition organized by the National Portrait Gallery, opens January 31. Works from Harvard collections are showcased in Abstraction, opening February 7, and Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Sketches in Clay, opening February 28. Continuing exhibits include The Art of Identity: African Sculpture from the Teel Collection and Circa 1874: The Emergence of Impressionism. At the Sackler, "Rasika," the Discerning Connoisseur: Indian Paintings from the John Kenneth Galbraith Collection opens January 31. "Drawing is another kind of language": Recent American Drawings from a New York Private Collection continues through February 22. At the Busch-Reisinger, Gio Ponti and the Villa Planchart, opening January 3, traces the architect's work. For details, call 495-9400.

Photographs of mountains taken by Bradford Washburn are on display at the Museum of Cultural and Natural History, along with a multitude of other intriguing objects for all ages. Call 495-3045 for exhibit details.

Gaito Gazdanov and Russian Literature in Exile (see "Vita") continues at the Houghton Library through February 27. Call 495-2440 for further information.