San Jose Barracuda take the ice for a cause on Nov. 16

Hockey for everyone

College of Adaptive Arts is joining forces with the San Jose Barracudas AHL hockey team for its "Hockey is For Everyone" fundraiser on Nov. 16.

Students from College of Adaptive Arts will participate in the game that evening by singing the opening National Anthem, as well as performing a special cheer routine during the game. Based out of West Valley College in Saratoga, the College of Adaptive Arts is a nonprofit that provides college programs for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

The Barracudas face off against the Wranglers at 6 p.m. at the Tech CU Arena, 1500 S. 10th St., San Jose. Jose Barracudas will donate a portion of ticket sales to College of Adaptive Arts. Tickets are $23.36 at

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WILLOW GLEN>>The San José Chamber Orchestra will take a musical "Trip to the Southern Hemisphere" On Nov. 17, with a concert featuring Astor Piazzolla's "The Seasons" and Pablo E. Furman's "Paso del Fuego."

Piazzolla's work is a set of four tango compositions arranged by Leonid Desyatnikov, which were originally conceived and treated as different compositions rather than one suite, although Piazzolla performed them together from time to time. The pieces were scored for his quintet of violin (viola), piano, electric guitar, double bass and bandoneón.

A longtime music professor at San José State University, Furman's concerto in four movements for string quartet and chamber orchestra is titled "Paso del Fuego," which means "Passage of Fire." It was originally commissioned and premiered by the San José Chamber Orchestra in collaboration with the Cypress Quartet in 2010.