• Jazz musician John Pizzarelli uses music to write a fan letter to Ol’ Blue Eyes in his “Dear Mr. Sinatra.” Pizzarelli is performing at the Crouse-Hinds Concert Theater at Mulroy Civic Center, located at 411 Montgomery Street in Syracuse tonight. While Frank Sinatra might not have been thinking about Ithaca when he wrote New York, New York, a Cornellian can dream, can’t he? Pizzarelli puts pen to pad (musically that is) at 8 p.m.
• As most of you have probably noticed by now, Cornell is not the only school in our beloved Ithaca. The Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra is performing at 4 p.m. this Sunday, in Ford Hall, in the James J. Whalen Center for Music. The concert will include the world premier of Processio, a composition by Sally Lamb, an assistant professor at Ithaca College in music theory, history and composition. The premier of an original like this should be a treat.
• Anderson Alley Artists, located at 250 North Goodman St. in Rochester, is having an open house this Saturday, starting at noon and running until 4 p.m. The Anderson Alley Artists dabble in a wide array of crafts including painting, ceramics, drawing, photography, mixed media, sculpture, weaving, jewelry and more.
• Wherefore art thou going this weekend? To Waterman Theater, in SUNY Oswego’s Tyler Hall, which will play host to a performance of the Shakespeare comedy, Twelfth Night. For those of you who are not huge Shakespeare fans, I would advise testing him out with a comedy, not a tragedy. The show starts 2:30 p.m. this Sunday and is expected to run until 4:00 PM.