FARGO — It wasn’t a dark and stormy night in Fargo on Saturday, but it sounded like it at North Dakota State University’s Festival Concert Hall.

The Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra opened its new season with the world premiere of Noir Concerto No. 1, a shadowy thriller by Fargo native Adam Hochstatter.

The show plays again at 2 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 21.

A film score composer in Hollywood, Hochstatter’s piece played out like a cinematic drama, one that starred Russ Peterson on saxophone in the lead.

A graduate of Concordia College, Hochstatter studied under Peterson, who also is principal bassoonist in the FMSO. Hochstatter wrote Noir Concerto No. 1 with Peterson in mind as a way to showcase the saxophone, which is often unused in symphony works.

The pairing was a match made in heaven,

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