MUSIC : A musical celebration for all ages that’s also for a good cause.

Peter and the Wolf will be there. So will Korean, Finnish and Australian musicians and Jeffrey Kahane conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The affair drawing them together is the 21st annual Peninsula Music Fair on Sunday, a benefit for the orchestra and local music programs.

The Peninsula Committee for the Los Angeles Philharmonic sponsors the event, which will feature workshops for children and more than a dozen performances. The fair will run from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Chadwick school, 26800 S. Academy Drive, near Rolling Hills on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

This year, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which is marking its 75th season, and singer, songwriter and balladeer Kenny Rankin headline the bill.

The orchestra will perform two programs, one geared for a young audience and the other for more experienced listeners.

The children’s program begins at 1:30 p.m. with Bernstein’s “Candide Overture” followed by Britten’s “Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra” and “The Infernal Dance” from Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite.”

The orchestra’s second program will feature Kahane conducting Mozart’s “Piano Concerto in C.” The program, beginning at 3:30 p.m., also will include Mozart’s Overture to “Marriage to Figaro” and Brahms’ “Academic Festival Overture.”

Rankin, a guitarist, is known for his compositions “Haven’t We Met,” “In the Name of Love” and “Peaceful,” which have been recorded by various artists. He is also known for his interpretations of Beatles hits.

For jazz lovers, the Long Beach Polytechnic Vocal Jazz Band will sing interpretations of familiar standards; the Vintage Quartet will offer a traditional sound with contemporary flair, and Niobe Brass, a jazz quintet, will perform popular compositions.

The fair also will showcase international music. Performers include the Korean Classical Music and Dance Company, part of the Los Angeles Music Center’s educational “On Tour” program; Brother, an Australian-based pipe-and-drum band; Merja Soria, a Finnish folk singer, and traditional dulcimer music from Finland’s roving minstrel Janene Khanchalian.

Children are invited to participate in a special program that includes Jim Gamble’s puppets performing “Peter and the Wolf” and musical clowns Bobbo and Kookee teaching their “nursery rhyme rock” songs such as “I Like Me” and “It Makes Me Laugh.”

During the music workshops, children can learn how to make their own instruments and explore musical composition and improvisation.

The nonprofit Peninsula Committee, one of about 15 community groups supporting the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has donated more than $600,000 to the orchestra since the first music fair in 1972. Organizers hope to raise $40,000 this year.

The committee also raises about $12,000 annually to fund music programs in Palos Verdes schools, provide transportation to youth concerts and help support the Music Mobile program, a traveling music room that introduces the orchestra and its instruments to third-grade students.

Admission to the fair is $17 for adults and $7 for children.

Information: (310) 318-8166.