Review: Fairfax Symphony Orchestra gives a spectacular salute to Copland, Beethoven

Do you need a huge orchestra to make huge music? The answer -- to judge by the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra's larger-than-life performance at George Mason University on Saturday night -- is an emphatic no. Under the baton of music director Christopher Zimmerman, this orchestra has been punching well above its weight for several years now, and its season-opening concert -- which paired two of Aaron Copland's colorful "American" works with the pulse-racing fury of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony -- pro...