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At Harvard Daily Entertainment & Events

9 December Thursday

Concert

Cabot House Music Society. Voices, a program of songs and musical theater with Anna Myatt, Roger Marsh, Luna Woolf and Charles McGuire. Features Brecht songs by Weill and Eisler and works by Patrick Lee, Luciano Berio, Georges Aperghis and Roger Marsh. Cabot Lounge, 7:30 p.m.

Exhibitions

Busch-Reisinger Museum. Through Dec. 12. "The Sketchbooks of George Grosz." Exploring the many sides of the former dada activist through more than 80 of his previously unexhibited sketchbooks.

Fogg Art Museum. Through Jan. 6: "The Art of Time: Clocks, Watches, and Other Timepieces from Harvard Collections." The inner works of each timepiece will be displayed outside the case to help viewers appreciate the clockmakers' art.

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Through Jan. 9. "An Offbeat Collection of Dutch and Flemish Paintings." Featuring 20 works from the 16th-and 17th century Netherlands, all drawn from a private collection.

Through Feb. 20. "Turner-Ruskin-Nor ton-Winthrop." Grenville Winthrop's collection of over 600 will be highlighted by an exhibition of prints by and after the great British Romantic landscapist Joseph Turner (1775-1851). Turner's interest was spurred by his education at Harvard under Charles Eliot Norton, who was in turn deeply influenced by John Ruskin, the British critic.

Ongoing. "Decorative Arts Gallery." 17th and 18th-century British and American silver, furniture and porcelain. Some of the rare treasures are the "President's Chair" and the "Great Salt."

Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library. Through Jan. 17. "Jazz Illustrated: The Extraordinary Art of Burt Goldblatt, An Exhibition of Graphic Art and Photography." Featuring photography, perspective drawing, painting, typography, caricature and collage.

Museum of Comparative Zoology, Agassiz Museum. Through April. "Everybody Likes Trilobites." Some 300 trilobites-prehistoric anthropods, sea-dwelling creatures distantly related to insects-from the collection of Thomas Johnson remarkable for their exquisite condition and international range.

Sackler Museum. Through Jan. 23. "Buddhist Art: The Later Tradition." A survey of Buddhist art from the 8th through the 18th centuries, emphasizing works from China, Korea and Japan but also including ones from Nepal and Tibet.

Through Jan. 30. "Calligraphy and the Arts of the Book." Over 30 examples of this highly sophisticated, subtle and infinitely varied medium will be chosen for their meaning and beauty.

Through July. "Impressions of Mesopotamia: Seals from the Ancient Near East." Featuring 24 seals and charting their stylistic and functional development over 3000 years of history.

Film

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center. $5 for students. "Zoo" at 7 p.m. This is a film about the zoo in Miami, Florida, with 780 animals representing hundreds of species.

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