10:30am MusicThe 56th Ojai Music Festival, which...

10:30am Music

The 56th Ojai Music Festival, which opened earlier this week, brings a weekend full of music, classes and seminars. Today a team of musicologists discusses “Last and Latest Thoughts--From Beethoven to the Present,” and the Emerson Quartet gives an afternoon master class. That ensemble will play the late quartets of Beethoven and Shostakovich in three installments during the festival, Friday to Sunday. Other highlights: Italian pianist Marino Formenti and singer Ute Lemper with guitarist Eliot Fisk.

Ojai Music Festival, Libbey Bowl, Ojai Avenue at Signal Street, and Ojai Presbyterian Church, 304 N. Foothills Road, Ojai. Emerson Quartet, Friday, 8:15 p.m.; Saturday, 8:30 p.m.; Sunday, 5:30 p.m. Marino Formenti, Family Concert, Saturday, 10:30 a.m.; recital Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Ute Lemper and Eliot Fisk, Sunday, 11 a.m. $15 to $55. (805) 646-2053.

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8pm Jazz

Curtis Stigers had a million-selling blue-eyed soul hit record in the early 1990s and then flirted with the singer-songwriter pop genre, but more recently

he’s back to his first love: jazz. For his engagement

at Catalina’s, the singer-

saxophonist has some all-star backing: Jeff Hamilton, John Clayton

and Larry Goldings.

Curtis Stigers Jazz Group, Catalina Bar & Grill, 1640 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Hollywood. Today-Saturday, 8:30 and 10:30 p.m.; Sunday, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. $15 to $20. (323) 466-2210.

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8pm Theater

“Rearranging Grace,” a new comedy drama by Nancy Butscher, centers on a psychic teenager with a drunken, depraved mother and allies that include her brothers and the ghost of her grandmother.

“Rearranging Grace,” MET Theatre, 1089 N. Oxford Ave., L.A., 8 p.m. Regular schedule: Thursdays-

Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 2 p.m.; June 8, 2 p.m. only. Ends June 29. $10; June 8 matinee, pay what you can. (323) 957-1152.

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8:30pm Dance

Cowabunga! What else can you say when choreographer Keith Glassman stages a celebration of surfing culture? Called “Mavericks,” it features five dancers, 10 surfers, two composers (Alan Terricciano and Jon Szanto) and Glassman’s interviews with surfers. Glassman has asked surfers to do what they usually do on their boards--but without their boards, he says, “so you see it as dance.” You’ll also see what he calls “a folk dance” choreographed from a typical style of beach walking and various board maneuvers. Finally, some lucky townie in the audience each night will get a surfing lesson from an authentic Malibu surfing star. In all, it’s a 50-minute beach party without the sunburn.

Keith Glassman’s “Mavericks,” Highways Performance Space, 1651 18th St., Santa Monica, 8:30 p.m. Also Friday and Saturday, 8:30 p.m. $15. (310) 315-1459.

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6pm Benefit

The Center for the Study of Political Graphics pokes fun at the Big Art Question--”But is it art?”--at this year’s annual fund-raiser and auction, titled “What’s Black & White & Red All Over?” The evening will honor The Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Paul Conrad and political silk-screen artist Wendell Collins, as well as artists Nora Hamilton and Norma Chinchilla, who recently collaborated on “Seeking Community in a Global City--Guatemalans and Salvadorans in Los Angeles.” The evening also promises a silent and live auction, buffet dinner and entertainment.

“What’s Black, White & Red All Over?” El Rey Theater, 5515 Wilshire Blvd., L.A., 6 to 10 p.m. General admission, $65; reserved seats, $125; students, $35. (323) 653-4662.