A Lady and Her Ukulele : ‘Saturday Night Live’ veteran Victoria Jackson will perform songs from her new album at Pages.

Victoria Jackson has been described as a cross between Judy Holiday and Tiny Tim. A veteran of “Saturday Night Live” and a frequent “Tonight Show” guest, Jackson has created a dizzy blonde persona. Now she has recorded an album on which he sings and plays the ukulele.

Jackson will give a mini-concert March 4 at Pages Bookstore in Tarzana. The album, “Ukulele Lady,” is aimed at children, although the songs are not written especially for children but are 1930s pop standards.

“I think it’s funny,” Jackson says, “that for adults, most songs are angry and sad. And just because these songs are happy, they’re for kids.”

On “Ukulele Lady,” Jackson offers renditions of such classics as “When the Red Red Robin Comes Bob-Bob-Bobbin’ Along,” “The Riddle Song,” “Button Up Your Overcoat” and “You Are My Sunshine.” She’s written some adult songs that have the requisite anger and sadness, with such titles as “Adultery,” “Born to Suffer” and “Angry Woman.” But those will have to wait for another album, she says.

Jackson has been playing the ukulele since she was 10. After six seasons on “Saturday Night Live” (1986 to 1992), she returned to her native Miami and married her high school sweetheart. She recently had a second daughter. The album is culled from songs she sings to her children.

“My dad used to play the piano,” she remembers. “These songs are all the songs from my childhood.”

Victoria Jackson performs songs from “Ukulele Lady” at 11 a.m. March 4 at Pages Bookstore, 18399 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana. Admission is $2, which can be applied to the purchase of the tape. Call (818) 34-BOOKS.

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YOUNG ONES: The differences between professional musicians and youthful novices are obvious to conductor Christopher Fazzi.

He has worked with both during the course of his musical career. He is now conductor of the Glendale Youth Orchestra, which is made up of 70 musicians from sixth to 12th grades, but during the 1980s, he was musical director of the Glendale Chamber Orchestra, a professional ensemble.

“The biggest difference is preparation time,” Fazzi says. “(With the youth,) it takes rehearsals for many weeks; with professionals, it usually takes four rehearsals.”

But Fazzi is quick to add that working with kids has its pluses, too.

“I enjoy working with the kids,” he says. “The kids who are here want to be here. They have a very positive attitude.”

The Glendale Youth Orchestra will play its first concert in its new home, the Alex Theatre, on Tuesday. The program will include selections by Von Suppe, Sibelius, Brahms and Saint-Saens.

The orchestra, now in its sixth season, is entering its third under Fazzi’s leadership. It is a nonprofit organization that was formed to provide orchestral playing opportunities for the area’s young musicians and to promote interest in classical music among young people in general.

Fazzi says he is amazed by the ability of his young musicians.

“We’re doing Saint-Saens’ Symphony No. 3,” he says. “If I don’t tell them it’s hard, they don’t know that and they just do it.”

The ensemble will play two concerts at the Alex this year and plans three concerts there next year. In early March, the orchestra travels to Phoenix for a performance. At that performance, the group will combine with a youth orchestra there to make a 160-voice ensemble. Fazzi says conducting such a large group gives the conductor a special thrill.

“People misinterpret conductors,” he says. “It’s not that we get the glory. It’s the excitement of performing this music and being in the center of it all.”

The Glendale Youth Orchestra will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Alex Theatre, 215 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale. Tickets are $6. Call (818) 240-6546.

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THEATER MAGIC: The Pierce College theater department’s season opens March 3 with an adaptation of “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” in the school’s Mainstage Theatre.

This version of the classic story by Elizabeth B. Dooley will be given a new musical twist. Vincent Reyes of Canoga Park, a Pierce music student, has composed an original score, including words and music, for the production. The show, geared for children from preschool through junior high, runs through March 12.

The rest of the school’s spring season consists of “The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery” by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jr., March 24 to April 2, and “Fifth of July,” April 28 to May 7.

“The Farndale” mystery deals with an amateur theater group’s production of a mystery in which nearly everything goes wrong.

“It’s a truly outrageous comedy,” says theater manager Jim Loeffler. “It has audience participation, with a contest and a fashion show.”

“Fifth of July,” by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lanford Wilson, is about the lives and attitudes of a group of student radicals after their college years.

“Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” opens at 1:30 p.m. March 3 in the Pierce College Mainstage Theater, 6201 Winnetka Ave., Woodland Hills. Tickets are $5. Call (818) 719-6488.

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FREE MUSIC: The North Weddington Cultural Center in North Hollywood will have a musical open house Sunday featuring the Blazers, and Russell Scott & the Red Hots. The event, which celebrates the return of the Grammy Awards ceremony to Los Angeles, will also feature some exhibition basketball games played by member teams of the Music Industry Basketball League.

The open house at North Weddington Cultural Center, 10844 Acama St., North Hollywood, co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks and radio station KRLA-AM, begins at noon Sunday. Admission is free. No alcoholic beverages allowed in the park. Call (818) 506-1467.