Arts Listings

Arts and Entertainment: Around the East Bay

Friday December 15, 2006

MUSIC FROM THREE GREAT COMPOSERS 

 

The Berkeley Community Chorus and Orchestra will present Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Aaron Copland’s American Songs and the world premiere of Julian White’s She Walks in Beauty, as well as excerpts from The Children’s Hour and Five Parables, at 4:30 p.m. Sunday at St. Joseph the Worker Church, 1640 Addison St. Admission is free, but donations are welcome. www.bcco.org. 

 

CERRITO CLASSICS  

 

William Powell and Myrna Loy, as Nick and Nora Charles, set out to solve a murder mystery in the 1934 screwball comedy classic The Thin Man, the first in a series of successful Thin Man films based on a novel by Dashiell Hammet. 6 p.m. Saturday and 5 p.m. Sunday at the Cerrito Theater. 10070 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito. 814-2400. www.picturepubpizza.com.  

 

‘THE NUTCRACKER’ AT JULIA MORGAN CENTER 

 

The Berkeley Ballet Theater will perform The Nutcracker at 7 p.m. Friday, at 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, and at 2 p.m. Sunday. Julia Morgan Center for the Arts, 2640 College Ave. $16-$21. 843-4689. 

 

‘THE ORGANIZER’ 

 

A screening of Mario Monicelli’s The Organizer (1963) will close out Pacific Film Archive’s six-week retrospective of films from the Janus collection at 8:15 p.m. Saturday. The film examines the beginnings of the trade union movement in Italy at the end of the 19th century, with Marcello Mastroianni playing a Genoa schoolteacher who finds his way to Turin to lead textile workers in a strike. $4-$8. 2575 Bancroft Way. www.bampfa.berkeley.edu.