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Article: Season Finale Caps Hudson's Success With Fairfax Symphony Orchestra
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- The Washington Post
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- May 16, 1996
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In Saturday evening's concert at George Mason University's
Center for the Arts, conductor William Hudson closed out his 25th
subscription season as music director of the Fairfax Symphony
Orchestra.
In that quarter-century, Hudson has built the FSO into one of
the most respected regional orchestras in the United States, with a
substantial and enthusiastic audience, exacting technical standards
and a solid, if not specially adventurous, repertoire.
Begun in 1957 as a 52-member community orchestra, the
orchestra was staffed entirely by amateurs and gave free concerts in
high school auditoriums to audiences of about 200. Hudson began the
process of making the Fairfax Symphony ...