11am MusicIf you’ve ever sat in Dorothy...

11am Music

If you’ve ever sat in Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and wondered, “How do they do that?,” here’s a chance to find out. The distinguished young American violinist Pamela Frank will give a violin and chamber music master class that’s free and open to the public. The program, sponsored by the Music Center, is designed to give music students and non-musicians alike a look at how classical music comes alive. Recovery from an illness has caused Frank to cancel two scheduled performances with the L.A. Chamber Orchestra, but this appearance will go on as planned.

Pamela Frank master class, Zipper Concert Hall, Colburn School of Performing Arts, 200 S. Grand Ave., L.A., 11 a.m. Free. (213) 202-2293.

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2pm Poetry

Perhaps one of the greatest compliments of a poet’s career is to be well read. Sharon Olds is one of America’s best-selling active poets. Critics are often divided on her work, which graphically deals with the pleasures and pains of everyday life. Some see in her words fine attention to detail, others dismiss it as lacking depth. And yet there’s no arguing with her success. She’s won a Book Critics Circle Award (for 1984’s “The Dead and the Living”), a Walt Whitman Citation of Merit and was the poet laureate of New York state from 1998 to 1999.

Sharon Olds, “Words in the World” Literary Series, 2 p.m. at the Central Library, 630 W. 5th St., downtown L.A. $8. Reservations recommended. (213) 228-7025.

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9:30pm Pop Music

The reissue of the 1978-vintage “Live From the Masque” album is the occasion for a pogo party featuring two veterans of the original L.A. punk rock scene. The Controllers and the Skulls also mark their homecoming after their appearance at the recent Sleazefest in San Francisco.

The Controllers, the Skulls, Bigfoot Lodge, 3172 Los Feliz Blvd., L.A., 9:30 p.m. $4. (323) 662-9227.

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all day Art

Sometimes collision, not necessity, is the mother of invention. The new exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930,” looks at cross-fertilization of influences among painters, sculptors and designers in Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the former Yugoslavia and what is now the Czech Republic during the evolution of modernism. As modernism was taking hold, the cities that fostered it were growing into cosmopolitan centers, and the show looks at exhibitions and performances that inspired cultural exchange.

“Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., L.A. Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, noon-8 p.m.; Fridays, noon-9 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; closed Wednesdays. Adults, $7; students and seniors, $5; children and younger students, $1; 5 and under free. (323) 857-6000.