ARTS AGENDA . Picks

Just Do It
State Fair
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II wrote only one movie musical — but after the phenomenal success of Oklahoma!, South Pacific and The King and I, staging the beloved State Fair was inevitable. —Mark Cofta

Just Opened
Streets of Philadelphia Lego Gallery
Rather than give up, Renthal opened an art gallery as a means to present his vision for the waterfront, using everyone's favorite toy, Legos, to create a 9- by 38-foot model of Penn's Landing. —Sierra Tishgart

MUSIC . Picks

Satoko Fujii ma-do
Wed., Sept. 3, 8 p.m., $12, Rose Recital Hall (Room 419), Fisher-Bennett Hall, University of Pennsylvania, 3340 Walnut St., 866-468-3401, arsnovaworkshop.com.
Even at its quietest, in improvised segments of scraping strings and squealing horn, there's an electric impatience to this musical collage, a sense of ideas forcing themselves forward, shoving past the obstacle of time. —Shaun Brady

September Saxophone Extravaganza
Sept. 3-30, Chris' Jazz Café, 1421 Sansom St., 215-568-3131, chrisjazzcafe.com.
Distill jazz into one iconic image, and you'd almost have to arrive at the saxophone. It's the instrument most associated with the music in its modern guise, and has been since the days when big swing bands yielded to the fiery blowing sessions of bebop. —Shaun Brady

Violens
Sat., Aug. 30, 9:30 p.m., $10, with Relay, Ape School and Pink Skull, Johnny Brenda's, 1201 Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, johnnybrendas.com.
Guitars chime, choirboy vocals echo and synths stab atop stumbling rhythms. While such naval-gazing nostalgia is nothing new, Violens ditch the anoraks and attack their songs with enough energy to make them complete reinventions rather than rote reinterpretations. —Kevin Pearson