It's more than just Heart and Soul: the Berkeley Arts Festival presents an evening of four-hand piano pieces, composed by beloved local minimalist Terry Riley, and performed by Joseph Kubera and Berkeley radio host/pianist Sarah Cahill. 8 p.m., $10-20 sliding scale, at the temporary Berkeley Arts Festival location, which is the Fidelity Bank Building at 2323 Shattuck (x Bancroft).

Other events:

--A talk at the SF Main Public Library on "How to Listen to and Appreciate Bay Area Jazz Styles," hosted by local ethnomusicologist and jazz drummer Anthony Brown. Free, 6 p.m., 100 Larkin (x Grove).

--It's indie press Wednesday at Intersection for the Arts, which is hosting an evening of poetry and prose readings from two local online journals, Switchback (the USF MFA journal) and Tattoo Highway. $5-$15 sliding scale, 7 p.m., 446 Valencia (x 16th).

--The Film Arts Foundation screens "Row Hard, No Excuses," a documentary about two men in a rowboat trying to cross the Atlantic. $8, 7:30 p.m.,Yerba Buena Center (701 Mission).

--And hey, check out these two lectures we found! There's a discussion about the wacky shenanigans going on in the French presidential elections at the Alliance Francaise tonight (7 p.m., $8, 1345 Bush, x Larkin), as well as a talk by chess grandmaster Alex Yermolinsky at the Mechanics' Institute's chess club. (5:15 p.m., and you can stay and play chess afterwards.)