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TODAY

The La Crescenta Library presents “Flamenco A Mi Manera” at 2 p.m. at the La Crescenta Library, 4521 La Crescenta Ave., La Crescenta. Susana Elena will perform Spanish and flamenco dances with guitarist Almer Imamovic. A simple rumba flamenco will be taught at the end of the show. Admission is free. For more information, call (818) 248-5313.

Crescenta Valley High School Performing Arts Department presents “Pippin” the musical at 7:30 p.m. at the Crescenta Valley High School Auditorium, 2900 Community Ave., La Crescenta. Tickets range from $5 to $15. There will be an additional performance on Saturday. For more information, call (818) 497-5801.

“Bus Stop” by William Inge continues at 8 p.m. tonight and 2 p.m. Sunday in the Glendale Community College Auditorium Mainstage Theatre. The romantic comedy takes place during a howling snowstorm when a busload of weary travelers including a chanteuse, a headstrong cowboy and a bitter drunken professor, must take cover at a roadside diner until morning. Tickets are $10, $6 for students and seniors and $4 each for groups of 10 or more and children 12 and under. For reservations, call (818) 240-1000, ext. 5618.

Luna Acts, a series of five American short plays, has its final performance at 8 p.m. today at the Luna Playhouse, 3706 San Fernando Road, Glendale. Tickets are $20. For more information, call (818) 500-7200.

A Noise Within’s “Man of La Mancha” opens at 8 p.m. today at the theater, 234 S. Brand Blvd., Glendale. Directed by artistic co-director Julia Rodriguez Elliott, the play tells the story of Don Quixote as a play within a play performed by Miguel de Cervantes and his fellow prisoners as they await trial by the Spanish Inquisition. The play continues through May 27 in repertory with Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” opening March 31 and Joe Orton’s “Loot” opening April 28. For reservations, call (818) 240-0910, ext. 1.

SUNDAY

The Doctors House Museum is showing an exhibit of vintage needle art from 2 to 4 p.m. every Sunday in March and April at the museum in Brand Park, 1601 W. Mountain St., Glendale. Period examples of quilting, lace making, embroidery, needlepoint, rug making, dress making, knitting and crocheting are on exhibit and docents will demonstrate their needle artistry so visitors can see how some of these decorative items are created. The museum will be closed Easter Sunday. Admission in $1. For information please call 242-4290.

Duo pianists M’lou Dietzer and Penny Foster will present an annual benefit recital at 4 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Verdugo Hills, 4451 Dunsmore Ave., La Crescenta. The program will include works by Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Ravel, Saint-Saens, Villa-Lobos and others. The tax-deductible cost is $10 for adults and $20 for families. For more information, call (818) 248-1186.

Jazz Celebrations presents The Judy Wexler Trio at 5 p.m. at First Lutheran Church, 1300 E. Colorado St., Glendale. For more information, call (818) 240-9000 or (323) 245-4000.

Talent Night at Revo Art & Jazz Café from 8 to 11 p.m. at the café, 1022 E. Chevy Chase Drive, #A., Glendale. Actress and cabaret singer Linda Hopkins welcomes new talent to sing with a live band the second and fourth Sundays of the month. For more information, call (818) 549-0809 or www.revocoffee.com.

MONDAY

The Duke University Chorale will perform at 7:30 p.m. at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 1020 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale. The 55-member chorus will sing sacred and secular works, as well as a variety of classical, folk and spiritual repertoire. A reception will follow the concert. Donations will be accepted. For more information, call (818) 240-3860

FRIDAY

The Glendale Quilt Guild presents the 2007 Quilt Show, “Fiesta Fantastica” from 2 to 8 p.m. at the Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel and Convention Center, 2500 Hollywood Way, Burbank. Tickets are $9 for children 11 years of age to adults. Children 10 years of age and under are free. The show will continue from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Call (818) 249-4742.

MARCH 17

The 14-member ensemble from Concordia University in Irvine, directed by Herb Geisler, will present classical, sacred and popular compositions by Bach, Tchaikovsky and McChesney among other composers in a return visit at 7 p.m. to Salem Lutheran Church, 1211 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale. A free-will offering will be received. A reception follows. Child care for ages 3 and under is provided during the concert. Call (818) 243-3193.

The Irish Center of Southern California based in Glendale will have its 13th annual St. Patrick’s Day dinner dance beginning with society time at 6 p.m. and dance at 7:15 p.m. at the Hilton Glendale, 100 Glenoaks Blvd., Glendale. Tickets are $60 and include entertainment by Des Regan’s Irish-American Showband, Cleary School of Irish Dance, L.A. Set Dancers, Bagpipers. The Irish honoree awards will also be presented. Call (626) 337-0075 or (818) 238-0445.

The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra will be led by Ignat Solzhenitsyn from the piano at 7:30 p.m. at the Alex Theatre, 216 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale. Solzhenitsyn is the music director of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. The program is Mozart’s Divertimento in D major for strings, K. 136 and Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat major, K. 595 and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4 in A major, Italian, Op. 90. Margaret Batjer, violinist, will lead the Divertimento from the first chair. Solzhenitsyn will play/conduct the concerto, and will conduct the Mendelssohn. Tickets range from $17 to $76 and can be reserved by calling (818) 243-2539 or going to www.laco.org.