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Q It’s neat to watch the emergence of Samuel Adams, who’s only 28 and already quite a composer. The fact that he and his dad, John Adams, both live in the East Bay and are composing for the San Francisco Symphony — has this sort of thing ever happened before with a major orchestra?. A Not in my musical lifetime. I think you’d have to go pretty far back. I don’t know if there were any occasions when Wolfgang Mozart and Leopold Mozart wrote something for the same orchestra, or if the Gabrielli brothers or the Bach family did it. I don’t know.

The Hot Sardines: New York band presents jazz and swing renditions of holiday favorites; 7:30 p.m, Dec, 9 at Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University; $15-$45; live.stanford.edu; 7:30 p.m, Dec, 11 at Bankhead Theater, Livermore; $30-$60; 925-373-6800, lvpac.org, The ballerina shoe slipper shape cookie cutter ballet biscuit pastry fondant sharp dough stencil Klezmatics: Acclaimed contemporary klezmer band performs holiday concert titled “Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah”; presented by Stanford Live; 7:30 p.m, Dec, 14; Bing Concert Hall, Stanford Live; $15-$65; live.stanford.edu..

Dani Imai, coordinator of educational services, is seeing some positive and engaging happenings around the district. “I have not really been surprised, but I am constantly thrilled by what our kids can achieve,” Imai said about the program. There are nine schools that host an after school program: Belshaw, Fremont, Kimball, Marsh, Mission and Turner Elementary, Antioch Middle, Park Middle and Antioch High. More than 650 students are engaged in these programs at the elementary schools, about 130 in the middle schools, and “anywhere from 120 to 260 each day” at the high school.

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TheatreWorks. “Marry Me A Little.” By Stephen Sondheim. June 4 through June 29. Directed by TheatreWorks Artistic Director Robert Kelley. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. $19-$73. theatreworks.org or 650-463-1960. WANT YOUR EVENT IN THINGS TO DO?. Send name of event, time and date, place of event including address, how much it costs, where to buy tickets and the name and phone number of a contact person to jorr@dailynewsgroup.com. (More online.