This week, Happy Dog Duo performs a live performance of classical favorites, bestselling creator Allison Saft launches her latest ebook at Kepler’s, the Menlo Park Library hosts “A Visit with Nikola Tesla” and a Computer History Museum exhibit celebrates the Mac’s fortieth birthday.
Happy Dog Duo
Pianists Eric Tran and Nathan Cheung, who carry out as Happy Dog Duo, have toured internationally, performed with quite a few orchestras (together with the Stanford Symphony Orchestra), and received many awards over the course of their two-decade profession. The duo will current a live performance of favorites, appropriate for all ages, together with Leonard Bernstein’s “Overture to Candide,” Maurice Ravel’s “Rapsodie Espagnole,” Paul Dukas’ “Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” and Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite, ending with “In the Hall of the Mountain King.” The duo is understood for bringing humor and pleasure to the classical music world. Friends and collaborators since center faculty, each pianists are graduates of Stanford University. According to their website“They enjoy performing memorized concerts, premiering original works, and amusing audiences with their improvisatory, notoriously ridiculous concert interruptus talks.” And regardless of their duo’s identify, “Neither Nathan nor Eric has any dogs.”
Jan. 6, 7:30 p.m., Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (MVCPA SecondStage), 500 Castro St., Mountain View. Tickets are $16-$30. tickets.mvcpa.com.
A go to with Nikola Tesla
Actor, director and educator Duffy Hudson embodies the visionary scientist, electrical engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla in a one-person present, adopted by an opportunity for the viewers to speak with Tesla – after which Hudson as himself. Hudson, a Broadway and movie veteran, presents solo reveals wherein he brings to life figures reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe, Albert Einstein, George Burns, Dr. Seuss, and Audie Murphy, and even a one-man manufacturing of “A Christmas Carol.”
Jan. 6, midday, Menlo Park Library, 800 Alma St., Menlo Park. Free. menlopark.gov.
A Fragile Enchantment
Kepler’s Books will get the yr off to a magical begin with New York Times and indie bestselling creator Allison Saft, who’s readily available to launch her latest work, “A Fragile Enchantment.” The ebook spins a romantic story a couple of magically gifted dressmaker tasked with creating the clothes for a royal wedding ceremony in a neighboring land that appears fairytale good, however hides some darkish secrets and techniques. She finally ends up drawn right into a political and doubtlessly harmful scenario when she begins falling for the groom. Saft seems in dialog with fellow bestselling author Ava Reid.
Jan. 9, 7 p.m. at Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real #100, Menlo Park. Tickets are $5-$10 with out ebook/$30 with ebook. keplers.org.
Hello: The Apple Mac@40
Apple’s groundbreaking pc, the Macintosh, is formally middle-aged: because the Mac turns 40 in 2024, the Computer History Museum is internet hosting a pop-up exhibit to mark the milestone. Technology might have come a great distance since 1984, however the influence of the tiny, boxy pc, with its user-friendly interface and mouse — and the period of Apple branding and design it ushered in — is unmistakable. The exhibit, “Hello: The Apple Mac@40,” attracts from the museum’s assortment in addition to gadgets on mortgage from Apple alums to spotlight every part from the workings of the machine itself to the branding that helped make Apple a family identify. The exhibit consists of uncommon prototypes in addition to artifacts associated to the Mac’s creation and advertising and marketing — even a leotard modeled after one worn within the well-known 1984 Super Bowl ad touting the brand new tech.
Through Feb. 25 on the Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View. Admission is $6.50-$19.50. computerhistory.org.
