Chazen Calendar February–March 2017 | Page 7

2 Thursday
9 Thursday
12 Sunday
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23 Thursday
12:30 p . m . Docent Gerry Matthews leads a 40-minute tour in the permanent collection .
5 Sunday
12:30 p . m . Sunday Afternoon Live at the Chazen : Pro Arte Quartet .
2 p . m . A docent leads a 40-minute tour , docent ’ s choice .
2 p . m . Sunday Cinematheque : Music by John Williams : Jaws , USA , 1975 , 35mm , 124 min . Directed by Steven Spielberg , cast : Roy Scheider , Richard Dreyfuss , Robert Shaw . In one of the very best of all 1970s blockbusters , an unusually large and vicious great white shark is devouring swimmers off the coast of a tiny New England resort town . It ’ s up to the newly appointed police chief ( Scheider ), an ichthyologist ( Dreyfuss ) and a salty fisherman ( Shaw ) to kill the “ eating machine .” John Williams ’ score , which takes inspiration from other classic seafaring adventures , as well as Stravinsky ’ s Rite of Spring , made him the most sought-after composer in Hollywood .
12:30 p . m . Docent Gerry Matthews leads a 40-minute tour in the permanent collection .
5:30 – 6:30 p . m . “ Francesco de Mura and Bourbon Naples ,” a lecture by Robin L . Thomas , Ph . D ., Associate Professor , Department of Art History , The Pennsylvania State University . This lecture will explore the ways in which de Mura played a leading role in the royal effort to remake Naples into a modern capital . Chazen Auditorium .
2 p . m . Docent Judy Berry leads a 40-minute tour , docent ’ s choice .
2 p . m . Sunday Cinematheque : Music by John Williams Bachelor Flat , USA , 1962 , 35mm , 91 min . Directed by Frank Tashlin , cast : Terry-Thomas , Tuesday Weld , Richard Beymer . Professor Bruce Patterson ( quintessential uptight Brit Terry-Thomas ) continuously has to keep beating off his female students with a stick . When he decides to lease the apartment of his fiancée ( Celeste Holm ) while she is abroad , complications ensue after her teenage daughter ( Weld ) decides to visit . Tashlin ’ s hilarious sex romp comes complete with a pants-dropping finale and a jazzy early score from John ( then Johnny ) Williams !
16 Thursday
12:30 p . m . Docent Jane Dymond leads a 40-minute tour in the permanent collection .
18 Saturday
1 p . m . Arie Antiche , Baroque Songs and Arias from Naples featuring the voice students of Paul and Cheryl Rowe . Gallery III .
Last day to view Daumier Lithographs : Characters and Caricatures .
2 p . m . A docent leads a 40-minute tour , docent ' s choice .
2 p . m . Sunday Cinematheque : Music by John Williams : Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban , USA , 2004 , 35mm , 142 min . Directed by Alfonso Cuarón , cast : Daniel Radcliffe , Emma Watson , Rupert Grint . In the third film in the series , Harry Potter fears the new threat of Sirius Black , a traitorous murderer who escaped from the magical prison Azkaban — and happens to have a personal vendetta against the young wizard hero . Along with the excellent additions of Gary Oldman and Emma Thompson to the cast , Cuarón brings a tone of darkness and dread to the youthful mysteries at Hogwarts , marking a lasting shift for the franchise in one of its best entries . The Prisoner of Azkaban also contains the third and last of John Williams ’ original scores for the saga .
12:30 p . m . Docent trainee Brian King leads a 40-minute tour in the permanent collection .
26 Sunday
2 p . m . Docent Kim Vergeront leads a 40-minute tour , docent ' s choice .
2 p . m . Sunday Cinematheque : Music by John Williams : How to Steal a Million , USA , 1966 , 35mm , 127 min . Directed by William Wyler , cast : Audrey Hepburn , Peter O ’ Toole , Charles Boyer . An art forger ’ s daughter ( Hepburn ) teams up with a suave burglar ( O ’ Toole ) to retrieve a fake Cellini statue from a heavily secured museum . Director Wyler , re-teamed with his Roman Holiday discovery Hepburn , finds a suitably light touch for this entertaining caper . It ’ s also helped along by the enormously charming cast , which also includes Eli Wallach , and Hugh Griffith , and bouncy John Williams music .