The Fall River Symphony Orchestra (FRSO) will be featuring Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and Phillip Glass’ Double Concerto for Violin and Cello later this month.
The soloists in the concert, violinist Michael Korn and cellist Craig Hultgren, have known each other since the music director Douglas McRay Daniels was a young musician.
Hultgren and Korn both played with the Alabama Symphony when Daniels was in high school. Daniels attended the University of Montevallo, which was located just south of the Symphony’s home base, but when Daniels was a senior, the Symphony went bankrupt. Hultgren went to teach at the University of Montevallo while Korn went to Massachusetts. Hultgren was Daniels’ teacher at the University and the two performed together several times.
Daniels became the assistant conductor of the Waltham Philharmonic Orchestra 15 years later and met Korn, who became the conductor. During the next five years, Daniels learned that Hultgren and Korn knew each other and were good friends, so when Daniels joined the FRSP, he decided to have a concert featuring the two musicians, with pieces new to the orchestra that highlighted the strengths and backgrounds of each soloist.
Special performances such as this one often turn to poster printing to promote themselves. The concert will be held at the Margaret L. Jackson Performing Arts Center at the Fall River campus of Bristol Community College this Sunday, March 10.