Arts Events in the Ivies
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• Wycliffe Gordon and Friends hit Columbia University’s Miller Theatre, located at Broadway and 116th, at 8 p.m. tomorrow night. Gordon’s friends include Jeremy pelt on trumpet, Rodney Green on drums and Cyrus Chestnut on piano. JazzTimes calls Gordon “a breath of fresh air,” so if the Ithaca air is too cold, head down to Columbia tomorrow to breathe in some jazz.
• Friendship, science and war collide in Michael Frayn’s “Copenhagen.” The last chance to see this play at Harvard’s Loeb Drama Center, located at 64 Brattle St. is this weekend. In what the Boston Globe calls “a sparklingly intelligent work,” two old friends are on two different side of a global war, both trying to be the first to create the atomic bomb. Shows are tonight at 8 p.m., tomorrow at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. It should be a blast.
• The Yale Symphony Orchestra will be playing the works of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky at Woosley Hall, located at College St. and Grove St. Percussionist Robert Van Sice will join the group on marimba during Thomas Duffy’s “Three Places in New Haven.” The show starts tomorrow at 8 p.m. Go check it out.
• This weekend, Brown’s Sayles Hall will hold an organ recital by world-renowned organist James David Christie. In 1979, Christie became the first American to win First Prize at the Bruges International Organ Competition in Belgium. In that same year he became the first person in the competition’s history to win both the First Prize and the Prize of the Audience. The concert starts at 4 p.m. on Sunday. Get ready to rock!