Art Hounds: Sunday with the Bakken Trio

This week on Art Hounds: The Bakken Trio, a musical about marriage and kinetic sculpture in Fergus Falls.

Retired English teacher Pat Strandness thinks she's been to pretty much every Bakken Trio performance in the past 15 years, a record she means to extend this Sunday. This weekend the trio will be exploring the influence of Debussy on other artists, as well as the role music from Japan had in influencing his own work. The 4 p.m. concert at MacPhail Center for Music includes works by Charles Widor, Claude Debussy, Toshiro Mayazumi, Somei Satoh and Toru Takemitsu.

Yellow Tree Theatre co-founder Jessica Peterson says to grab your husband or wife and head to "'Til Death," a musical by Bucket Brigade Theater. The musical stars real-life couples Jeremiah and Vanessa Gamble and Ben Bakken and Maureen Sherman-Mendez, but the story is fiction. Two couples — one honeymooning, the other in a marital midlife crisis — get stuck together in a cabin. As one song promises: "to have and to hold 'til we're wrinkled and old, for better or worse if I don't kill you first!" Performances run Jan. 28 through Feb. 13 at Art House North in St. Paul.

Talk about art that moves you: Jacinta Macheel Zens says you could stare for hours at the kinetic sculptures of Jeffrey and Carl Zachmann. The father and son each have their own distinctive styles; Jeffrey's are more like rollercoasters, with balls on metal tracks, while son Carl incorporates antique gears and a steampunk flair. The show is up at the Lake Region Arts Council in Fergus Falls through March 5.

Correction (Jan. 21, 2015): An earlier version of this article incorrectly listed members of the cast and performance dates for "'Til Death." The current version is correct.