Pianists Eric Tran and Nathan Cheung, who perform as Happy Dog Duo, have toured internationally, played with numerous orchestras (including the Stanford Symphony Orchestra), and won many awards over the course of their two-decade career. The duo will present a concert of favorites, suitable for all ages, including 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 known for bringing humor and joy to the classical music world. Friends and collaborators since middle school, both 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 according to their site, despite their duo's name, "Neither Nathan nor Eric has any dogs."

==I 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 visit with Nikola Tesla

Actor, director and educator Duffy Hudson embodies the visionary scientist, electrical engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla in a one-person show, followed by a chance for the audience to talk with Tesla — and then Hudson as himself. Hudson, a Broadway and film veteran, presents solo shows in which he brings to life figures such as Edgar Allan Poe, Albert Einstein, George Burns, Dr. Seuss, and Audie Murphy, and even a one-man production of "A Christmas Carol."

Jan. 6, noon, Menlo Park Library, 800 Alma St., Menlo Park. Free. menlopark.gov.

Local Sound Series

Kick off the first week of 2024 with original Bay Area music at The Guild. The venue launches its Local Sound Series on Jan. 5 with an Americana-inflected double bill of The Live Oaks and Alex Lucero Band. Oakland's folk 'n ' rollers The Live Oaks draw on roots and soul for their sound, while Santa Cruz-based Alex Lucero Band looks to '60s and '70s soul and blues in their songs.

Jan. 5, 8 p.m. at The Guild, 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Tickets are $28. guildtheatre.com. n