OCTOBER AT PENN

MUSIC

4 An Evening of Latin Food, Jazz and Dancing; includes a Puerto Rican dinner, Calle 54 Tour concert and dance party with music by the Latin Pulse Band; 6 p.m.; Annenberg Center; $10/dinner; $47 $42 $34 $28/Calle 54; $20/dance party; Info./Tickets: (215) 898-3900 (Penn Presents; Association of Latin American Musician).

TALKS

2 Cell Biology of Antigen Presentation; Hidde Ploegh, Harvard Medical School; noon; Austrian Auditorium, Clinical Research Bldg. (Microbiology).

7 Brad Wayland; University City Hospitality Coalition; noon; rm. 225, Houston Hall (Rotary Club of University City).

Quaker Meeting

As part of the10th annual Penn Family Day
on Saturday, October 5, there will be a
"Quaker Player Autograph Session" at
the conclusion of the Penn vs. Dartmouth
football game. All are invited to come down to the East Endzone of Franklin Field to meet
some of your favorite Quakers.

Works by Penn's Anna Weesner

The music of Penn's award-winning composer and assistant professor of music, Dr. Anna Weesner, will be featured in an October 6 performance by the Cypress String Quartet. Dr. Weesner's piece Flux will be the centerpiece at the concert, which is sponsored by the Department of Music and Penn Contemporary Music. Commissioned as part of the Cypress Quartet's "Call and Response" project, the piece acknowledges standard chamber repertoire while pursuing new musical territory.

The program will also include Daniel Asia's String Quartet No. 2 and Debussy's String Quartet, Op. 10 in G Minor. Praised by the Los Angeles Times for its "musical astuteness and virtuoso resources," the Cypress Quartet (Cecily Ward and Tom Stone, violins; Ethan Filner, viola; Jennifer Kloetzel, cello) has been featured in Chamber Music Magazine as the "Generation X ensemble to watch." Founded in 1996, the quartet has appeared regularly on NPR's "Performance Today" and has toured throughout the U.S., Europe, and Japan. The concert will be at 8 p.m. on Sunday, October 6 at the Curtis Institute of Music, 1726 Locust Street. Admission is free (general seating, no tickets required).

  Now Showing At The Burrison Art Gallery

Mountain and River Landscape (right), a water color painting by Mien Lee, from Taiwan, is one of the many pieces currently on view at the Burrison Art Gallery at the Faculty Club,Inn At Penn.

This exhibit, Chinese Calligraphy and Classical Paintings, is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. through October 31.