8 pm: Music

Created on a commission from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Franco Donatoni’s new “Esa (in Cauda V)” receives its world premiere performances this weekend by the orchestra, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. The new piece, dedicated to Donatoni’s former pupil, Salonen, was the Italian composer’s final work; he died in August. Also on this program: The Piano Concerto by Schumann, with soloist Radu Lupu, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7.

* Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown L.A., 8 p.m. $10 to $70. Also Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. (323) 850-2000.

2:30 and 8:15 pm: Movies

Richard Arlen and Charles “Buddy” Rogers take to the skies in William Wellman’s full-throttle World War I action film “Wings”--the first Oscar winner for best film--screening this weekend at the Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo. Notable for its aerial combat sequences and sexy Clara Bow as the girl the flying aces both fall for.

* “Wings,” Old Town Music Hall, 140 Richmond St., El Segundo. Friday, 2:30 and 8:15 p.m. Saturday, 2:30 and 8:15 p.m. Sunday, 2:30 p.m. $6 to $7. (310) 322-2592.

8:30 pm: Dance

Based on two or more dancers’ moment-by-moment sensitivity to changing conditions of balance and shared weight, contact improvisation has long been one of the most influential techniques in contemporary dance--used for everything from training performers to developing new choreography. In “Score: Contact Improvisation Performance Festival,” Highways Performance Space hosts a gathering of free-spirited Southland contacters. Participating artists will include Lower Left Ensemble, Shel Wagner and Stefan Fabry, Stephanie Nugent, Tom Young and Dona Leonard and the group named Off the Hip. Wagner has curated the festival, and the emcee is Terry Luke Johnson.

* “Score: Contact Improvisation Performance Festival,” Highways Performance Space, 1651 18th St., Santa Monica. 8:30 p.m. Also Saturday, 8:30 p.m. $15. (310) 315-1459.

8:15 pm: Pop Music

Radio station Mega 92.3’s Mega Love Jam lives up to its title, not only with the romantic and erotic range of music from soul veterans Peaches & Herb, Rose Royce, the Mary Jane Girls, Heatwave, Gene Chandler and others, but also with the earmarking of funds to assist victims of the recent El Salvador earthquake.

* Mega Love Jam at the Universal Amphitheatre, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, 8:15 p.m. $27 to $39.50. (818) 622-4440.

8 pm: Theater

Glenn Casale directs “Jerry’s Girls,” the touring musical revue conceived by Larry Alford, Wayne Cilento and composer Jerry Herman, celebrating Herman’s Broadway hits, with a song list that includes numbers from such shows as “Hello, Dolly!,” “Mame,” “Mack and Mabel” and “La Cage Aux Folles.”

* “Jerry’s Girls,” Smothers Theatre, Pepperdine University, 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, Friday at 8 p.m. $30. (310) 506-4522.

8 pm: Theater

Culture Clash--Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas and Herbert Siguenza--performs its latest touring show, “Culture Clash: Coast to Coast,” a compilation of excerpts from the comedy trio’s last four satiric theater pieces: “Culture Clash Invades Miami,” “Culture Clash in Bordertown,” “Nuyorican Stories” and “Mission Magic Mystical Tour.”

* “Culture Clash: Coast to Coast,” Japan America Theatre, 244 San Pedro St., Little Tokyo, L.A. 8 p.m. Also Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m. $20 to $25. (213) 680-3700.

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Short videos made with the Fisher-Price PXL 2000, a toy camcorder that records sound and image directly onto audiocassettes, are featured in “PXL This Ten.” Vidiots, 302 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, 8 p.m. (310) 392-8508.

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From teaching at CalArts to helping curate the Inner Ear concert series to leading various jazz ensembles, avant-jazz reed player Vinny Golia is a busy man. Friday at 5:30 p.m. he brings his quintet to the courtyard at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., L.A. (323) 857-6115.

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For the exhibit “This is my house,” artists from around the world will project images on windows and walls at the Mackey Apartments, designed by R.M. Schindler, 1137 S. Cochran Ave., L.A. 6-10 p.m. Also Saturday and Sunday, 6-10 p.m. (323) 651-1510.