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Article: Fairfax Symphony
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- The Washington Post
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- February 22, 1988
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Three radically different works-ranging from the dauntingly new
to the reassuringly familiar-made up Saturday night's performance by
the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of conductor
William Hudson.
Opening with a limpid, evocative reading of Mendelssohn's
two-part tone-poem "Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage," Hudson moved
quickly into Krzysztof Penderecki's considerably stormier Concerto
for Viola and Orchestra from 1983. Written in a more accessible but
no less tormented style than the composer's seminal works of the
1960s, the concerto proved fiercely inventive and dramatic, and the ...