Holiday favorite Based on the classic 1954 film (and the iconic Irving Berlin tune that was a hit for Bing Crosby), White Christmas gets a new stage production featuring other Berlin classics such as "Sisters" and "Snow." The show goes on at 1 and 6:30 p.m. today at the Academy of Music, Broad and Locust Streets, and continues with performances at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 1 and 6:30 p.m. next Sunday. Tickets are $28 to $125. Call 215-731-333.

Just Hub A founding member of the seminal Philly hip-hop group the Roots, bassist Leonard Nelson Hubbard (known to all as "Hub") was a key part of the band's sound. He stepped out on his own in 2007, setting up shop in his hometown, teaching at Settlement Music School, and composing. Hub plays his new stuff, with guest A. Marcy Francis, at 4 p.m. at the Arts Bank, 601 S. Broad St. Tickets are $20. Call 215-545-0741.

Monday

Drawn from a life The illustrations of Roger Hane, deftly combining the cartoony and the profound, will be familiar to anyone who read books by C.S. Lewis or Carlos Castaneda in the 1970s. A meticulous craftsman and prolific artist, he was still in his 30s when he was killed during a robbery in Central Park in 1974. A retrospective of Hane's work, including magazine images, book covers, record jackets, and advertisements, is at the University of the Arts' von Hess Illustration Gallery, 333 S. Broad St., to Dec. 19. Admission is free. Call 215-717-6240.

Epic sound The Danish combo Mew plays an orchestral pop that expands emo with prog-rock maneuvers without the beat. Mew plays at 7:30 p.m. at the Trocadero, 1003 Arch St. Tickets are $16. Call 215-922-6888.

Tuesday

Solitary man B-movie director Budd Boetticher earned status as an auteur for his series of 1950s Westerns starring Randolph Scott as a lone hero amid a bleak landscape populated by the venal and cowardly. In The Tall T, Scott is a genial rancher who finds himself caught up in the ransom of an heiress and forced into a psychological battle with a brutal outlaw leader (Richard Boone). The 1957 film, based on an Elmore Leonard story, screens at 7:30 p.m. at the Chestnut Hill Library, 8711 Germantown Ave. Admission is free. Call 215-248-0977.

Tenor man Canadian tenor Colin Balzer makes his local recital debut performing songs by Haydn and Britten and lieder by Schubert and Wolf at 8 p.m. at the American Philosophical Society, 427 Chestnut St. Tickets are $23. Call 215-569-8080.

Wednesday

Jazz man A local-scene stalwart, alto saxophonist Tony Williams plays at 7:30 p.m. at the Cheltenham Arts Center, 439 Ashbourne Rd., Cheltenham. Tickets are $10; $5 for students. Call 215-517-8337.

Just his Best known as the front man for Ours, singer Jimmy Gnecco has the most powerful falsetto this side of Roy Orbison and an operatic, intense style. He performs solo at 8 p.m. at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. Tickets are $15. Call 215-222-1400.

Thursday

Brahms plus Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the Philadelphia Orchestra in Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1 with soloist Nicholas Angelich, plus works by Claude Vivier and Franck, at the Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall, Broad and Spruce Streets, at 8 p.m. Thursday, 2 p.m. Friday, and 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $10 to $125. Call 215-893-1999.

Fractured folk The sound of shattered tradition, with two groups - Bowerbirds and Elvis Perkins in Dearland - reassembling the shards to remarkable effect. They share a bill at 8 p.m. at First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St. Tickets are $14. Call 215-821-7575.

Friday & Saturday

Homecoming It's a gathering of rising-star alumni when conductor Mischa Santora leads the Curtis Chamber Orchestra in works by Brahms, Giovanni Bottesini, and Stravinsky with soloists Sarah Kwak, violin, and Fora Baltacigil, double bass. The concert is at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater, Broad and Spruce Streets, at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $23. Call 215-569-8080.

Holiday sounds Our choice for Handel's Messiah is John French conducting the Ursinus College Choir, with soloists Leslie Johnson, soprano, Robert O'Neill, countertenor, Kenneth Garner, tenor, and Reginald Pindell, bass, at Ursinus College, Main Street, Collegeville, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $15. Call 610-409-3000, Ext. 3583. . . . The Eric Mintel Quartet plays Vince Guaraldi's A Charlie Brown Christmas at Central Baptist Church, 106 W. Lancaster Ave., Wayne, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $18. Call 610-864-4303.