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“Although Michael is no longer with us to create new works, I want to bring in works that are flavored with Michael’s spirit of exploration. Michael was pretty fearless in trying new things. We like to continue to do that, while maintaining our very high artistic and production standards. So it’s been an exciting time for me to be able to maintain the best of Michael’s works and then bring in these talented new choreographers.”. “Bouquet,” Smuin’s spring 2013 program, which will be presented in San Francisco, Mountain View, Walnut Creek and Carmel, includes the West Coast premiere of Helen Pickett’s “Petal,” the Bay Area premiere of Darrell Grand Moultrie’s “Jazzin'” and Michael Smuin’s “Chants d’Auvergne.”.

Preschool Storytime: With “Stay and Play.” Tuesdays, 11:30 a.m, Cambrian Library, 1780 Hillsdale Ave., San Jose.sjpl.org/cambrian, Eliot Fisk: South Bay ballet slipper / shoe charms Guitar Society presents this performer known for his virtuosic repertoire, April 10, 7:30 p.m, Trianon Theatre, 72 N, Fifth St., San Jose, $15-$35, 855-502-7247, sbgs.org, Spring Landscapes: Featuring cellist Ani Aznavoorian, this Mission Chamber Orchestra of San Jose program features Mendelssohn’s Symphony no, 4, or “Italian”; the world premiere of Durwynne Hsieh’s Cello Concerto; Lars-Erik Larsson’s “Pastoral Suite”; and Peter Warlock’s “Capriol Suite.” April 11, 7:30 p.m, Trianon Theatre, 72 N, Fifth St., San Jose, $10-$25, 855-502-7247, missionchamber.org..

4. The Canvas. When hand-drawn warmth gets adapted into the cool pixel-precision of CGI, the fear is often that something will get lost in the translation. Steve Martino knows he is trying to bridge this chasm between two distinct visual languages. “I’ve talked to Craig a great deal about this,” Martino tells us. “His dad understood that when he drew for comic strips, he drew for one canvas. And he was very aware that for animation, you paint on a different canvas.”.

Broadway ballet slipper / shoe charms By the Bay, “Anything Goes.” 8 p.m, Nov, 7, 8, 15, 22; 2 p.m, Nov, 9, 15, 16, 23, Music and lyrics by Cole Porter, Directed by Michael Ryken, Featurings Katie Jaime (Reno Sweeney), Adam Cotugno (Billy Crocker), Samantha Cardenas (Hope Harcourt), Ray D’Ambrosio (Moonface Martin) and Tomas Theriot (Evelyn Oakleigh), Fox Theatre, 2215 Broadway St., Redwood City, $42-$64, 650-579-5565 or broadwaybythebay.org, Menlo School Drama, “Urinetown, The Musical.” 7:30 p.m, Nov, 7; 2 and 7:30 p.m, Nov, 8; 2 p.m, Nov, 9, Florence Moore Auditorium, Menlo School, 50 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton.$5 students, $10 adults, www.menlochool.org/tickets..

“I hated it,” she says. “I remember my parents were rehearsing Beethoven’s ‘Grosse Fuge.’ I was maybe 12 or 13, and I came stomping downstairs thinking it was a contemporary work. My father said ‘this is Beethoven,’ and I thought ‘you can’t pull that wool over my eyes!’ When I looked at the score, I couldn’t believe it.”. A turning point came when Alsop discovered Bartok. From there, she became immersed in the music of Steve Reich, Philip Glass and other groundbreaking composers. “I just got sucked into the new music vortex,” she says. “It was a connection with the music of my time that felt more vital even than my deep connection to the standard repertoire.”.