music

DINS ENDANGERED: DON’T FEED THE ANIMALS. And certainly don’t feed them gin and tonics. But what about the Harvard Din and Tonics?  Appearing on stage with a yet unannounced guest group, the Dins will mix up their trademark jazz a capella with dash of comedy.  Saturday, March 1 at 8 p.m. Tickets $10, $7 students, available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone (617) 496-2222.  Sanders Theatre. (SNJ)

BLACK ARTS FESTIVAL. The “Performing Arts Showcase” at this year’s festival features the inspiring singing of the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College and several of Harvard’s black cultural performing groups. Friday, Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. Tickets $7, $5 students and seniors, available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone (617) 496-2222. Lowell Lecture Hall. (MSH)

HARVARD POPS ORCHESTRA. The Pops perform theme music from the silver screen in “Pops Goes to the Movies.” Saturday, March 1 at 8 pm. Tickets $10, $7 for students and seniors, available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone (617) 496-2222. Lowell Lecture Hall. (MSH)

HARVARD JAZZ BAND. The jazz band celebrates the Black Arts Festival with “Jazz Band Brunch” at the Sheraton Commander Hotel. Sunday, March 2 at 11:30 a.m. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone (617) 496-2222. Sheraton Commander, 16 Garden St., (617)-537-4800. (MSH)

WYNTON MARSALIS. Controversially backward-looking trumpeter and titan of the contemporary jazz world tours the country with his father and brothers. Monday, March 3. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass. Ave., (617)-266-1492. (MSH).

BACH AND HAYDN: MUSICAL OFFERINGS FIT FOR A KING. An instrumental ensemble from the Handel and Haydn Orchestra plays landmark works written for King Frederick the Great of Prussia and Joseph II of Austria. With Grant Llewellyn, directing J.S. Bach’s The Musical Offering, BWV 1079 (Super Thema Reale) and Haydn’s “Emperor” String Quartet, Op. 76 No. 3. Saturday, March 1 at 3 p.m. Tickets $9-$56, available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone (617) 496-2222. Sanders Theatre. (TIH)

BERLIOZ BIRTHDAY BASH. The Harvard Wind Ensemble, along with the Northeastern Concert Band, honors the bicentennial of Hector Berlioz with a concert conducted by Harvard Assistant Band Director Nathaniel H. Dickey, and Northeastern Band Director Allen Feinstein. Each ensemble performs its own repertoire followed by a joint performance of Berlioz’s “Grande Symphonie funèbre et triumphale.” The concert also includes classic works for winds like Walter Piston’s “Tunbridge Fair,” Gustav Holst’s First and Second Suites for Military Band, as well as music by Percy Grainger, Giovanni Gabrieli, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Sunday, March 2, at 8 p.m. Tickets $8, $5 students and seniors, available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone (617) 496-2222. Sanders Theatre. (TIH)

CHARLIE HUNTER QUINTET. The eight-string guitar innovator form Berkeley, California brings his brand of Latin and Rock influenced jazz to Cambridge. The band does not have a keyboard or bass because Hunter lays down the bass line, comps, and solos all at once! Wednesday, March 5 at 9 p.m. The House of Blues, 96 Winthrop St., (617)-497-2229. (MSH)

DJ KRUSH. Expect cutting-edge beats and wizened sample play from this former Yakuza member and Japan’s premier turntablist export. Krush is joined by Seishi and DJ Reazon. Sunday, March 2 at 8 p.m. Tickets $12 advance, $15 door. The Middle East, 462-480 Mass. Ave., (617) 864-EAST. (RJK)

TEGAN AND SARA. The much-hyped Canadian duo bring their punkish brand of pop to the U.S. The twin sisters have played with the likes of Ryan Adams and Rufus Wainwright, among others. Wednesday, March 5 at 10:45 p.m. Tickets $8. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St., (617) 492-0082. (RJK)

visuals

STEVEN HOLL: LIGHT, MATERIAL AND DETAIL. The highly celebrated American architect enjoys a double exhibition across MIT’s campus. Holl’s buildings foreground the subjective experience of their inhabitants. Works examined include the Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art, Holl’s expansion to the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City and MIT’s very own Simmons Hall dormitory. Through April 16. Free. Hours: Mondays through Fridays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wolk Gallery, MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Mondays to Fridays 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m, Compton Gallery, MIT Museum. (RJK)

CAROLEE SCHNEEMAN. Multi-disciplinary artist Schneeman gives a lecture on her work titled “Disruptive Consciousness,” which focuses on discourse on the body, sexuality and gender. Her video, film, painting, photography, performance art and installation works have been shown at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. In 2002, MIT Press published Schneeman’s “Imaging Her Erotics—Essays, Interviews, Projects.” Thursday, March 6, at 6 p.m. Carpenter Center Lecture Hall, 24 Quincy St., (617) 495-3251. (TIH)

IMAGE AND EMPIRE: PICTURING INDIA DURING THE COLONIAL ERA. The exhibit features about 50 different works of art that capture different views of colonial India. The paintings, decorative objects, figurines, photographs and sketches not only document the colonial era (17th-20th centuries) in India, but also demonstrate the cross-pollination between British and Indian artistic traditions. See full story in the Feb. 7 Arts section. Through May 25. Hours: Mondays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays, 1 to 5 p.m. $6.50, $5 students/seniors, free for Harvard ID holders, Cambridge Public Library card holders and to people under 18. Group rates available. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, (617) 495-9400 (CWP)