8 and 9:30 p.m.JazzFresh off an appearance...

8 and 9:30 p.m.

Jazz

Fresh off an appearance at the San Francisco Jazz Festival, veteran saxophonist David “Fathead� Newman is in town for a multi-night run--and he’s got some impressive accompaniment in the way of trombonist Slide Hampton.

* David “Fathead� Newman with Slide Hampton, the Jazz Bakery, 3233 Helms Ave., Culver City. Thursday through Sunday at 8 and 9:30 p.m. Thursday, $22; Friday-Sunday, $25. (310) 271-9039.

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Music

Miguel Harth-Bedoya conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic in an Aaron Copland program this weekend, noting what would have been the late composer’s 100th birthday (Nov. 14, 1900). With veteran mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne singing some of the “Old American Songs,� the program also offers a sampling of Copland’s music for films, the revised Symphony Ode (1955) and the Suite from “Appalachian Spring.�

* The L.A. Philharmonic plays Aaron Copland in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown Los Angeles at 8 p.m. $10 to $70. Also, Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. (323) 850-2000.

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Pop Music

Pop-folk chanteuse Victoria Williams not only delivers a batch of new original songs in her latest album, “Water to Drink,� but also applies her idiosyncratic pipes to such standards as “Young at Heart� and “Until the Real Thing Comes Along.� Her husband Mark Olson opens for her at the El Rey, and don’t be surprised if their dog wanders on stage too.

* Victoria Williams, with Mark Olson, today at the El Rey Theatre, 5515 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. 8 p.m. $22.50. (323) 936-4790.

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Movies

The Silent Movie Theatre and proprietor Charlie Lustman celebrate the one-year anniversary of the venue’s grand reopening with one of the genre’s staples, Charlie Chaplin’s “Modern Times.� Chaplin’s last silent film, made in 1936, takes on the age of mechanization while slyly satirizing some of the day’s social issues. Paulette Goddard co-stars.

* “Modern Times,� Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles. Tonight-Sunday, 8 p.m.; with Sunday matinees, 1 and 4 p.m. $6 to $8. (323) 655-2520.

FREEBIE: Martin Clayton of the Royal Library at Windsor Castle will lecture on “The Afterlife of Raphael, Or, What to Do When Your Master Dies� in conjunction with “Raphael and His Circle: Drawings From Windsor Castle,� 7 p.m. at the Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Brentwood. (310) 440-7300.

* “Carved in Silence�--a 1988 documentary about Angel Island near San Francisco, the “Ellis Island of the West�--screens at the Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Wells Fargo Theater, 4700 Western Heritage Way, in Griffith Park. 7 p.m. (323) 667-2000.