Tuesday Happenings

Pie

Instead of buying the last can of One Pie and dropping it in the food drive bin (we know who you are), stop by Bella Luna tonight and eat some pie for charity. It's better to donate money than food to JP charity Community Servings anyway, and we need that can of One Pie for our pumpkin flan, thank you. Bella Luna, 284 Amory St., Jamaica Plain, 8 p.m. $10/$25 donations.

Lectures

Polymathic Harvard professor Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize for his work in welfare economics, but it has been the ideas of justice and identity that have fueled his most recent work. His latest book is The Idea of Justice, and he will discuss its implications tonight during his lecture "Reducing Injustice on Earth." Trinity Church, Copley Square, 7 p.m. Free.

String Quartets

The always captivating Borromeo String Quartet keeps things in the NEC family this evening when it performs the work of longtime NEC fixture Gunther Schuller. Schuller's Fourth String Quartet had its debut a mere seven years ago, and it's a harmonically dense show of force that the string quartet will discuss with Schuller before offering their reading. Williams Hall, New England Conservatory, 30 Gainsborough St., 6 p.m. Free.

On the other side of town, the JACK Quartet makes its ICA debut, performing work from a smattering of rising composers, including Felipe Lara, Kota Nakamura, Adam Roberts, and Roberto Toscano, as well as quartets by contemporary masters Iannis Xenakis and Salvatore Sciarrino. Institute of Contemporary Art, South Boston, 7 p.m. $15/$10.

People with Records

The new book And You Shall Know Us by the Trail Of Our Vinyl tells the story of Jews in America by way of a pile of thrift store records, and its authors, Roger Bennett and Josh Kun, will be in Boston to tell it out loud. House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., 7:30 p.m. $12/$15. More information.

People with Guitars

Neko Case makes country music, and people are always talking about her "pipes." We assume they mean her voice. Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tremont St., 8 p.m. $35.