The Las Vegas Philharmonic goes family-friendly with a program that includes works by Ludwig van Beethoven and Sergei Prokofiev. Photo by Ralph Fountain. Clint Holmes will narrate Saturday's performance.

The Las Vegas Philharmonic will present its second annual "Peter and the Wolf" family concert at 7 p.m. Saturday in Artemus Ham Hall at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Associate conductor Richard McGee and music director Harold Weller will conduct the orchestra and provide insights into the music between numbers.

Written by Sergei Prokofiev, "Peter and the Wolf" is the story of a young boy who lives with his grandfather in the Russian countryside. Peter leaves the garden gate open one day and a duck slips out to go swimming in the pond. A wolf comes out of the woods and swallows the duck. Peter later captures the wolf with a rope and leads the wolf to the zoo.

Clint Holmes will be the narrator.

Also on the program are Leonard Bernstein's Overture to "Candide," selections from "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by John Williams, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumble Bee"; the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 and the third movement from his Piano Concerto No. 3, and Alexander Borodin's "Polovtsian Dances."

"This program highlights two centuries of orchestral music," McGee says. "Beethoven was the first composer for the 'modern' symphony orchestra, and we will perform two of his most exciting movements."

Guest pianist Corbin Beisner of Las Vegas will perform with the orchestra on the concerto. A sophomore majoring in piano performance at the Hartt School in Hartford, Conn., Beisner won the Forum Internacional de Musica competition in Barcelona, Spain, in 2006.

"It was 90-degree heat with 90 percent humidity and there was no air conditioning," he says of the event, which was part of the city's annual music forum. "Everybody was drenched with sweat. But you can't always be in your own little bubble and be comfortable. You can't change the weather. You just have to adapt and go for it."

Beisner earned the Premier Prize, featuring a trip back to Barcelona to perform in November 2007, by performing two contrasting pieces in 20 minutes: Mozart's "Fantasia in D minor" and Listz's "First Mephisto Waltz."

Saturday's concert will be his first solo performance with the Philharmonic.