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Cornell University Glee Club.

The big picture

Cornell Cinema reopens Sunday, Jan. 22, with discounted admissions for the current hit movies "Moneyball" (4:30 p.m., $4), with Brad Pitt as the general manager who turns baseball's Oakland A's into a winning team using statistics; and "50/50," a serious comedy about a cancer patient, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogan (7:15 p.m., $2 for new students with ID).

The repertory cinema also kicks off two film series honoring directors Wong Kar-Wai and Wes Anderson with six films each; starting Jan. 25 and 27 with Wong's "Days of Being Wild" and Jan. 26-27 with Anderson's "Bottle Rocket." Also screening this week: "Contagion," "Drive" and the Sigur Rós tour documentary "Inni." Information: http://cinema.cornell.edu.

'Bound for Glory'

Singer-songwriter-musician Mike Agranoff brings witty parodies, recitations and broad repertoire to "Bound for Glory" Sunday, Jan. 22, 8-11 p.m. in Anabel Taylor Café. Free.

Now in its 45th year, the Sunday evening "Bound for Glory" folk music show is hosted by Phil Shapiro, M.A. '69. Live performances, in three 30-minute sets, are open to all ages and are broadcast live on WVBR-FM 93.5 and online at http://www.wvbr.com.

Web culture

Marc Voge and Young-hae Chang of the Seoul, Korea-based online art collaborative Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries will present an artists' talk Jan. 23 at 5:15 p.m. at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, in conjunction with the new exhibition "Lines of Control." Free; co-sponsored by the Department of Art.

The collaborators' text-based animations, combining interpreted literature set to original musical scores, have appeared in 17 languages. The artists also give a gallery talk, Jan. 27 at 4:30 p.m., preceding the public opening reception, 5-7 p.m., for the museum's winter and early spring exhibitions. Information: http://museum.cornell.edu, 607-255-6464.

Gleeful homecoming

The Department of Music begins the spring semester with a Cornell University Glee Club "Return from Tour" concert, Jan. 24, 8 p.m. in Sage Chapel. Tickets are $5, available at http://www.gleeclub.com and the door.

The concert program features repertoire from different cultures and themes of war and peace in song, including "Sonnet 73," commissioned by the Glee Club from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Shulamit Ran; Lee Hoiby's "Last Letter Home"and Augusta Read Thomas' "The Rewaking." The Hangovers, a subset of the Glee Club, will perform original arrangements of popular music; and the program closes with a selection of traditional Cornell songs including "Song of the Classes," "Evening Song" and the alma mater.

Led by Scott Tucker, the Priscilla Edwards Browning Director of Choral Music, the Glee Club recently toured the Midwest, with concerts from Jan. 5 to 15, including stops in Chicago, St. Louis and Toronto. The ensemble also led high school choral workshops during the tour and collaborated with the Purdue Varsity and University of Michigan glee clubs and other men's choral groups.

Piano jazz

Jazz pianist Jason Moran and bassist Dave Holland will team for an exclusive, intimate duo performance in the Cornell Concert Series, Saturday, Jan. 28, at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall. General admission is $35, $25 for Cornell students.

Moran and Holland, both members of the Overtone Quartet, rarely perform as a duo. Both are artists-in-residence at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, and Moran serves as artistic adviser for jazz at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran, originally scheduled to perform on this date, will not appear due to her role on Broadway in "Porgy and Bess."

Seating is limited; tickets are available at http://www.cornellconcertseries.com and http://www.baileytickets.com; at Ticket Center Ithaca, 171 The Commons; and by phone at 607-273-4497 or 800-284-8422.

Prized writing

Zimbabwean writer Elizabeth Tshele, MFA '10, will read from her work at a Literary Luncheon, Feb. 1 at the Cayuga Heights home of Professor Robin Davisson and President David Skorton.

The luncheon is free and open to the first 25 people to register by Jan. 25 at special-events@cornell.edu. A light menu of local fare will be served at 11:30 a.m.

Tshele is a lecturer in the Department of English and the Africana Studies and Research Center. She held the Truman Capote Creative Writing Lectureship in 2010-11.

Under the pen name NoViolet Bulawayo, her short fiction has won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing (known as the African Booker Prize) and was shortlisted for the 2009 SA PEN Studzinsi Award. Her work has appeared in Callaloo, The Boston Review, the Warwick Review and in anthologies in Africa and the United Kingdom. She is finishing work on a novel, "We Need New Names."