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SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Art
The dream-like paintings of Hawaiian-born artist Mabel Alvarez, including her celebrated “Blue Madonna,†are on exhibit at Mission San Juan Capistrano. A native of Hawaii, Alvarez moved to Los Angeles in 1906. In 1915, she enrolled in the School for Illustration and Painting, directed by William V. Cahill. She became a prolific painter in the 1920s and 1930s.
* The paintings of Mabel Alvarez, Mission San Juan Capistrano, 31522 Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano. Daily, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Christmas. $4-$6. Through Jan. 4. (949) 234-1300.
COSTA MESA
8 p.m.
Music
Once the mainstay of Philharmonic Society of Orange County offerings, the Los Angeles Philharmonic has become in recent seasons only one among many Society-sponsored visitors. Zubin Mehta will conduct the orchestra in Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 (“Linzâ€) and Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 (“The Greatâ€). The program comes at the end of the Eclectic Orange Festival sponsored by the Society.
* Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orange County Performing Arts Center, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. 8 p.m. $15 to $55. (714) 556-2787.
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