<!--td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->Machines roar, race, remember, and dream in this program exploring the boundary between human imagination and mechanical power. William Bolcom’s Machine launches the concert with relentless momentum, while Saunder Choi’s Locomotion transforms the pulse of a train into a vivid portrait of Philippine commuter life. Mason Bates’s Observer in the Magellanic Cloud sends a robotic satellite across deep time to glimpse an ancient Earth, and Shuying Li’s The Last Hive Mind pits artificial intelligence against a fragile human lullaby.The concert features SJSU saxophone professor Dr. Michael Hernandez, as well as David Cortez, winner of the 2026 SJSU Concerto Competition, in a consortium premiere of Alan Theisen’s Archaic Machines, a genre-blurring baritone saxophone concerto in which jazz, funk, mystery, and science fiction collide.
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The Bay Area has an amazing live music and event scene — and so does Santa Cruz, just over the hill. Don’t sit at home, don’t go to the same-old, GET OUT THERE.
This is a very inclusive list of over 400 sources and venues across the bay area and Santa Cruz County, and all their events.