BEST BETS / Sunday 10/24

7pm

Jazz

Pianist Ramsey Lewis introduced a generation to jazz in the ‘60s with instrumental versions of “Wade in the Water,” “The In Crowd,” “Hang On Sloopy’ and others. The 64-year-old Chicago product, who continues to bring urban sophistication to his R&B-influenced; piano stylings, will be joined by smooth jazz guitarist Grant Geissman at this concert sponsored by FM radio station the Wave.

* Ramsey Lewis, Grant Geissman, Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, 12700 Center Court Drive, Cerritos, 7 p.m. $42 to $52. (800) 300-4345.

7:30pm

Music

Paul Salamunovich conducts Morten Lauridsen’s massive and inspiring “Lux Aeterna” and Johannes Brahms’ “A German Requiem” to open the Los Angeles Master Chorale’s 36th season. Soloists in the Brahms work are soprano Tamara Matthews and Swedish baritone Hakan Hagegard.

* The Los Angeles Master Chorale, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Music Center, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown L.A., 7:30 p.m. $10 to $52. (213) 365-3500.

8pm

Pop Music

Third Eye Blind’s Stephan Jenkins and singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik are joined at the Key Club by some other musicians, including Grant Lee Phillips and Abra Moore, for a breast cancer benefit, “Breastfest.”

* “Breastfest” with Stephan Jenkins, others, Key Club, 9039 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 8 p.m. $10. (310) 786-1712.

1:30pm

Music

The Symphony in the Glen presents its last free outdoor concert of the season Sunday. A program at 1:30 p.m. introduces children to music and instruments--and even lets them “play” under supervision from musicians. The Latin-influenced concert, at 3 p.m., includes the local premiere of “Sinfonieta” by Astor Piazzola, “Nights in the Gardens of Spain” by Manuel de Falla, and “Symphony India” by Carlos Chavez. Symphony founder and music director Arthur B. Rubinstein conducts.

* Alegria! Concert by Symphony in the Glen, near the merry-go-round in Griffith Park. Program, 1:30 p.m.; concert, 3 p.m. Free admission and parking. (213) 955-6976.

11am

Photography

“Ghost in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000,” a 150-year survey exploring how artists’ interpretations of human faces can reveal the subjects’ spirits, opens Sunday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In an attempt to trace a continuous thread through the history of photography, the exhibition will focus on three types of portraiture: “expressive,” “blank” and “false.” These portraits will be detailed in more than 175 photographic prints, books, multimedia works and videos by some of the most noted photographers of our time, including Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Irving Penn, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol and Annie Leibovitz.

* “Ghost in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd. Ends Jan. 16. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, noon-8 p.m.; Friday, noon-9 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.-8 pm. Adults, $7; seniors and students, $5; children, $1. (323) 857-6000.

2 & 3:30pm

Music

In a concert already sold out, Chamber Music in Historic Sites begins its 1999-2000 season with an appearance by the much-admired Mozartean Players--violinist Stanley Ritchie, cellist Myron Lutzke and fortepianist Steven Lubin. The ensemble will play Mozart: two mature Piano Trios (K. 502 and K. 304), plus the Violin Sonata in E minor and the keyboard variations on “Ah, vous dorai-je maman” in Le Petit Trianon--a copy of the famous retreat built for Madame de Pompadour.

* The Mozartean Players perform in Le Petit Trianon (address available to ticket holders), Pasadena. 2 and 3:30 p.m. $40 to $65. Sold out. (310) 954-4300.

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LACMA’s new Korean art galleries will open with Festival of Korea, an all-day event devoted to Korean art and culture, at 5905 Wilshire Blvd, noon-4:30 p.m. (323) 857-6000.

Nine-year-old pianist Albert Wong appears in the Sundays at Two recital series at the Beverly Hills Library, 444 N. Rexford Drive, 2 p.m. (310) 288-2201.