noon Photography

A display of rare images by noted Surrealist photographer Frederick Sommer, who died earlier this year, demonstrates how the artist influenced a generation of photographers in “A Tribute to Frederick Sommer, 1905-1999,” which opened this week at the Norton Simon Museum. Examples of the artist’s paint and smoke on cellophane, smoke on glass, cut-paper and soft-focus nude images will be displayed alongside images by 13 of his peers, including Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Alfred Stieglitz and Manuel Alvarez Bravo.

* “A Tribute to Frederick Sommer, 1905-1999.” Norton Simon Museum, 411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. Wednesdays-Sundays, noon-6 p.m.; Fridays, noon-9 p.m. (The museum will close at 6 p.m. Christmas Eve). Adults, $6; seniors, $3; students and children under 18, free. Ends March 26. (626) 449-6840.

3pm

Music/Dance

Are you ready for six hours of admission-free entertainment plus free parking? It happens once a year. The Los Angeles County Arts Commission hosts the L.A. County Holiday Celebration, wall-to-wall entertainment from the California Philharmonic to Vox Femina and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, with 31 troupes, choruses and performing organizations in between.

* The annual L.A. County Holiday Celebration. Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the Performing Arts Center, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown Los Angeles. 3-9 p.m. Free, with free parking, Friday only. (213) 972-3099.

all day

Movies

If you’re done with your holiday shopping, slip into a theater for a screening of director Scott Hicks’ just-released film adaptation of the bestselling David Guterson novel “Snow Falling on Cedars.” The film, which is set on a fictional island in the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, centers on the trial of a Japanese-American fisherman (Rick Yune), a former prison camp internee and World War II veteran, who is accused of killing another fisherman. Ethan Hawke plays a journalist who is assigned to cover the trial and who has long been in love with the accused man’s wife (Youki Kudoh). The cast includes James Cromwell, Richard Jenkins, Sam Shepard and Max Von Sydow. The adapted screenplay is by Hicks (whose 1996 film “Shine” was an international hit) and Academy Award-wining screenwriter Ron Bass.

* “Snow Falling on Cedars,” rated PG-13 for disturbing war images, sensuality and brief strong language, is at the Mann Festival, Westwood..

8:30pm

Pop Music

With the audiences at the roots-oriented Culver Saloon now showing more interest in old-time country music than the contemporary brand, veteran singer Yodeling Joey Dee has become a regular attraction. Maybe at this show he can give a carol or two the yodeling treatment.

* Yodeling Joey Dee, the Culver Saloon, 11513 Washington Blvd., Culver City, 8:30 p.m. Free. (310) 391-1519.

10pm

Pop Music

Skeptics might write off the swing music revival as last year’s craze, but for true believers the beat goes on and on. When it comes to the Los Angeles bands that do the most for the dancers, you can’t do much better than Flattop Tom & the Jump Cats, whose devotion to motion stems in part from their frontman’s other occupation--professional swing dancer.

* Flattop Tom & the Jump Cats, the Derby, 4500 Los Feliz Blvd., Los Angeles, 10 p.m. $7. (323) 663-8979.

Freebies:

Singer-pianist Rick Michael serenades last-minute shoppers at the Beverly Center from 1 to 4 p.m. at the sixth-floor center court.

Rides on all MTA buses and trains are free from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. Saturday. Also from Dec. 31 at 11 a.m. to Jan. 1 at 5 a.m.