What to Do, What to Do

As usual, there's a lot happening this weekend, but these events are particularly noteworthy and definitely worth your time. At the Meyerhoff on Friday and Sunday, the BSO will be playing a composition it co-commissioned from Philip Glass, Icarus at the Edge of Time, a multi-media piece that folds physicist Brian Greene's children's book (of the same name) into the show. The orchestra will also play a selection of music from the Star Wars films. On Saturday at 9:30 am, the Contemporary Museum unveils a new window installation, "Towards the Reservoir," by Caroline Lathan-Stiefel as part of its New View series. Lathan-Stiefel will be on-hand to discuss the piece, and coffee and pastries will be served—all for five bucks. At 11 am, the Baltimore Playwrights Festival presents its third annual public reading marathon at Single Carrot Theatre in Station North. Three plays will be read (Rosemary Frisino Toohey's Bloodlines, Mark Scharf's Fortune's Child, and Barry Weinberg's End Papers), and there will be a discussion with the director, actors, and playwright after each reading. And it's free! That afternoon, a memorial service and "picking party" will be held for steel/dobro guitar master Dave Giegerich, who passed away last month. It starts at 2 pm at the Maryland State Boy Choir Center for the Arts and figures to be a rousing celebration of Giegerich, who'd been playing regularly with Arty Hill, and his music.