Arts Events Around the Ivies
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• I’d say the worst part of growing up is that nobody reads to you before you go to sleep anymore. Well, we can all head to the Harlem Vintage at 2235 Frederick Douglas Blvd. near Columbia University tonight for a long overdue bedtime story. Between 7:30 and 9:30 there will be a reception and a reading of Nelle Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird as a part of a month long celebration of the novel.
• Are you missing the Big Red Marching Band’s Pirates of the Caribbean music from last football season? Don’t panic, because this weekend you can hear that music, as well as the music from movies like Jaws and Titanic, among others. Tomorrow night at 8, Lowell Lecture Hall will be the venue for a performance by the Harvard Pops Orchestra. The orchestra will play the music from the films listed above as well as a few well-known Bernstein pieces.
• Members of the Yale Collegium Players, Yale Voxtet and Yale Schola Cantorum will combine efforts and present “Ardo, Ardo: Monteverdi in Motion” this weekend. The performance includes singers, dancers and musicians. The best part is that the singers (all 35 of them) will be wearing costumes. Sounds like fun to me. The show, which is sponsored by the Yale Baroque Opera Project, starts at 4 p.m. tomorrow. It will be held in Sprague Memorial Hall.
• If you know how to, I suggest you apparate over to UPenn this Sunday. Between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., the Penn Museum turns into “The Magical Muggle Museum,” and all Harry Potter fans are encouraged to check it out. With a potions class, music from the Whomping Willows, a game of life-sized Wizard Chess and much more, there’s something for every witch, wizard and muggle that stops by on Sunday.
— Compiled by Dan Goldstein