2:30pm: Music

You’ve seen the movie, now hear the music. Singer-songwriter Ian Whitcomb and his White Star Orchestra will perform “Music From the Titanic,” melodies heard aboard the RMS Titanic on the luxury liner’s ill-fated voyage (and on Whitcomb’s album “Titanic--Music as Heard on the Fateful Voyage”).

* “Music From the Titanic,” Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino. Open seating. Free with museum admission. Adults, $8.50; seniors, $7; students, $5; children under 12 free. (626) 405-2100.

3:30 pm: Music

For the first Coleman Chamber Concert of the new year, the touring New York Philomusica ensemble plays a piano trio by Haydn, Hindemith’s Quintet for clarinet and string quartet and Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 1, Opus 25. New York Philomusica is the 27-year old, Manhattan-based ensemble specializing in chamber music from the mid-18th century to the present.

* New York Philomusica, Coleman Chamber series, Beckman Auditorium at Caltech, Michigan Avenue at Del Mar Boulevard in Pasadena. $13-$25. (626) 793-4191.

2 pm: Music

Winner of the 1997 Stosenberg Guitar Competition at Pepperdine University, the young Adam del Monte returns to the beach-side community for an afternoon recital in Smothers Theatre. The composer-guitarist will play original works as well as music by Barrios and Albeniz.

* Adam del Monte, Smothers Theatre at Pepperdine University, 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu. $15. (310) 456-4522.

5 pm: Theater

Tom Stoppard’s play-within-a-play comedy exploring love and marriage, “The Real Thing,” about a famous playwright whose wife tries to merge “worthy causes” with her art as an actress, opens at the Pasadena Playhouse, directed by Sheldon Epps, the theater’s new artistic director.

* “The Real Thing,” Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Ave. Regular schedule: Tuesdays-Fridays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 5 and 9 p.m.; Sundays, 2 and 7 p.m. Through Feb. 22. $13.50-$42.50. (800) 233-3123.

2:30 pm: Dance

Performed by Tibetan lamas from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in India, “Sacred Music, Sacred Dance” brings samples of Buddhist instrumental music, ceremonial chant and ritual dance to the Probst Center in Thousand Oaks. The dances feature spectacular costumes and dramatic movement: forceful rhythms and strong contrasts between expansive arm motion and sharp, buoyant footwork.

* “Sacred Music, Sacred Dance,” Probst Center, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, 2100 Thousand Oaks Blvd. $15-$25. (805) 449-ARTS.

7 pm: World Music

Klezmer music, with its vibrant rhythms and folksy appeal, has enjoyed a revival in the ‘90s, and the Klezmer Conservatory Band, directed by Hankus Netsky, chairman of the New England Conservatory of Music’s jazz studies department, has been at the forefront of the movement. Now in its 18th year, the band has appeared around the world, from New York’s Radio City Music Hall to the International Yiddish Festival in Krakow, Poland, and has recorded eight albums. Yiddish folk scholar Judy Bressler is the featured vocalist.

* Klezmer Conservatory Band, Alex Theatre, 216 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale. $25-$35. (800) 414-2539.

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FREEBIE: Comedy improv workshop, Artists Studio, 8235 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, noon. (310) 364-4500.