Orchid Isle Orchestra presents ‘Earth, Snow and Fire’

Orchid Isle Orchestra celebrates “Earth, Snow and Fire” in its annual holiday concert at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 15, at the Hawaii Science and Technology Museum. The museum is located just upstairs from Jackie Rey’s Restaurant, at 64 Keawe St. in Hilo.

Included in the sound garden is music harvested from the classical, romantic, jazz, modern and holiday genres — Holst’s “St. Paul’s Suite”; movements from Grieg’s “Holberg Suite”; “Fossils and Finale” from Saint-Saëns’ “The Carnival of the Animals”; “Girl from Ipanema” by Antonio Jobim; Gershwin’s “Someone to Watch Over Me”; and Leroy Anderson’s “Sleigh Ride,” among other music composed more recently.

Orchestra Artistic Director Cathy Young, orchestra President-Pianist Walter Greenwood, and students from the Young Music Studio open the concert with seeds from the classical and fiddling traditions.

The orchestra’s concertmaster, Alden Young, will perform a Chopin piano Etude.

The resident conductor, Maestro David MacKenzie, arranged percussion parts for several of the orchestra’s selections, and Waiakea High School percussionists Kiera Ida lyu and Tabitha Snader liven up the orchestra.

The orchestra invites the audience to sing along with familiar holiday music to close the concert.

Orchid Isle Orchestra is a community orchestra, teaming young string players with those who are young at heart, in its 18th year performing in East Hawaii.

Concert admission is free.

All donations are welcomed and will benefit the orchestra, its nonprofit fiscal agent, Unitarian Universalists of Puna, and string music education in East Hawaii.