8 pm: Pop Music

Nick Cave, the king of noir rock, will deliver his fire-and-brimstone this time without the backing of his longtime band the Bad Seeds, instead previewing his new album with the backing of Susan Stenger and Dirty 3 members Warren Ellis and Jim White.

* Nick Cave, Wiltern Theatre, 3790 Wilshire Blvd., L.A., 8 p.m. $27.50. (213) 380-5005.

2 pm: Music

John Alexander leads his 140-voice Pacific Chorale in masterpieces by Samuel Barber and Anton Bruckner, “Prayers of Kierkegaard” and “Agnus Dei,” and the Mass No. 3 in F minor, at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. Soloists are Carmen Pelton, Ellen Rabiner, Beau Palmer and Ralph Cato.

* The Pacific Chorale, Segerstrom Hall at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, 2 p.m. $15-$49. (714) 662-2345.

7 pm: Music

Concluding a five-concert visit to Southern California, conductor Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgoa and the National Orchestra of Spain play Brahms’ Third Symphony, the Piano Concerto by Anton Garcia Abril and Suites 1 and 2 from Falla’s “Three-Cornered Hat” in Royce Hall at UCLA. Soloist is pianist Leonel Morales.

* The National Orchestra of Spain, Royce Hall at UCLA, Westwood, 7 p.m. $40-$60. (310) 825-2101.

All day: Movies

Two of Martin Scorsese’s best films are featured at the New Beverly Cinema through Tuesday. “Mean Streets,” the film that brought the director his first wide acclaim, is a feverish tour of his native Little Italy through a B-movie lens. Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro star as small-time hoods who lose their souls on Mulberry Street. Perhaps the ultimate Martin Scorsese movie, “GoodFellas” is a bravura look at the lower levels of the New York Mafia, seen through the eyes of an Irish-Italian “wise guy” turned informant Henry Hill (Ray Liotta). Scorsese carries us from the ‘50s through the ‘80s with a virtuosic use of camera style and background music. The cast, particularly De Niro and Joe Pesci as two marvelously paranoid hoods, are sensational; the film scaldingly evokes decaying modern morality, while shocking us with its comic chutzpah and violence.

* Martin Scorsese Double Feature, New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Blvd., L.A. “Mean Streets”: Sunday, 2:35 and 7:30 p.m., Monday-Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. “GoodFellas”: Sunday, 4:45 and 9:40 p.m., Monday-Tuesday, 9:40 p.m. $3 to $6. (323) 938-4038.

1 pm: Performance Art

Michael Sakamoto, an interdisciplinary artist, will teach a free six-week performance workshop at the Watts Towers Arts Center. With the help of performance artist Rochelle Fabb, Sakamoto will teach movement and language leading up to a show for family and friends.

* Free performance workshop, Watts Towers Arts Center, 1727 E. 107th St., L.A. Sundays 1 to 3:30 p.m. through April 29. Register in advance. (310) 823-6389.

8 pm: Pop Music

Such Middle American outposts as Tulsa (Bright Eyes), Milwaukee (the Promise Ring) and Kansas City, Mo. (The Get Up Kids), are starting to put more and more notable music into circulation on the indie rock circuit. The Omaha band Cursive steps right into the mix with its third album, “Domestica,” an account of a crumbling relationship given intimacy and intensity by the band’s all-out delivery.

* Cursive, with Sunday’s Best and For Stars, the Troubadour, 9081 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, 8 p.m. $8. (310) 276-6168.

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FREEBIE: Brother-and-sister violin duo Amy and Ray Iwazumi, students of Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School in New York, appear in the Sundays at Two series at the Beverly Hills Public Library, 444 N. Rexford Drive, at 2 p.m. They will play music by Honegger, Paganini, Tchaikovsky, Wieniawski, Milhaud and Jean Absil. (310) 288-2201.

Bruce Molsky gives a fiddle concert at the California Traditional Music Society Folk Music Center, Encino Park, 16953 Ventura Blvd., Encino, 8 p.m. (818) 817-7756.

Brasil Brasil, with Ana Gazolla and Sonya Santos, performs on the Santa Monica Pier, at Ocean and Colorado avenues, Santa Monica, 2 to 4 p.m. (310) 458-8900.