Arts Events Around the Ivies

November 2, 2007
By Dan Goldstein

• The place to be this Saturday is the Penn Bookstore! Wait … did I just tell you to spend your weekend at a campus bookstore? This Saturday, UPenn is having a free concert in its bookstore. Folk Rock/Pop artist Jordan Lawhead will be performing from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. So hit the books!

• Everybody loves opera. It’s a scientific fact. Therefore, it is a must that everybody check out the Yale Opera tonight at 8. The group will be performing their show “Opera Scenes,” which includes scenes from a number of different operas. The audience will enjoy excerpts form Bellini’s “I Puritani” and Massenet’s “Don Quichotte,” among others. The show is at Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall, located at 470 College St. in New Haven.

• Columbia’s Miller Theater will play host to a momentous concert tonight. In “Composer Portraits: Gerald Barry,” Barry’s work, which has not been heard much in New York, will receive its greatest exposure to date. Even more exciting, listeners will hear the world premiere of Barry’s “Los Angeles,” a Miller Theatre commission. It should be a very musically unique night.

• The Dartmouth Chinese Culture Society is putting on quite an event tomorrow. “Legacies: Chinese Teahouse” will include traditional Chinese food, music, dancing, games and a marketplace. The festivities, which will be at the Collis Common Ground, start at 5 p.m. and are slated to end at 8 p.m.