all day: Art

The new exhibition “Heavenly Visions: Shaker Gift Drawings and Gift Songs,” which opened earlier this week at the UCLA Hammer Museum, focuses on the little-known Shaker custom of translating intense religious experiences into drawings. Composed of about 135 gift drawings, manuscripts of gift songs and related texts created by the Shakers from 1837 to 1850, the exhibition examines the historical interpretations of the drawings as well as the contemporary relevance of each.* “Heavenly Visions: Shaker Gift Drawings and Gift Songs,” UCLA Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood, through Oct. 21. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sundays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. $4.50; seniors and non-UCLA students, $3; UCLA students and children 17 and younger, free. (310) 443-7000.

6:30 pm: Pop Music

The Supremes of the new century? The jury is still out on the potential of Destiny’s Child to attain that stature, but Beyonce Knowles and company are off to an impressive start with their sassy and saleable R&B.;* Destiny’s Child, with Nelly, Eve, Dream and 3LW, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 8808 Irvine Center Drive, Irvine, 6:30 p.m. $28.75 to $48.75. (949) 855-2863.

8 pm: Music

Music by Luigi Boccherini for guitar and orchestra, featuring soloist Richard Savino, is spotlighted in the appearance by the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra at the Ford Amphitheatre. Leader Gregory Maldonado presides. The program also includes Mozart’s “Eine kleine Nachtmusik.”* Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East, Hollywood, 8 p.m. $20 to $25. (323) 461-3673.

Freebies

* The Pacific Trio returns for the Sundays Live series. Violinist Endre Balogh, cellist John Walz and pianist Edith Orloff play Haydn’s E-minor Trio and, joined by violinist Constance Kupka and violist Donald McInnes, Dvorak’s Piano Quintet in A, Opus 8, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., L.A., 6 p.m. (213) 485-6873.

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* The San Fernando Valley Audubon Society will host a bird walk in Woodley Park, Woodley Avenue between Burbank and Victory boulevards, Encino. Meet at Wildlife Area Amphitheatre, 8 a.m. (818) 831-2438.