FIDDLERS CAME, SAWED AND CONQUERED TROY.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: GREG HAYMES Staff writer

You simply couldn't have asked for a finer, more fitting closure to the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall's weeklong Celebration of American Fiddle Music than the soaring, stratospheric Fiddle Summit concert that absolutely delighted a sold-out crowd at the hall on Saturday night.

Four of America's finest fiddlers -- Mark O'Connor, Richard Greene, Darol Anger and Matt Glaser -- all rosined up their bows and sawed their way through two 70-minute sets of marvelous music that careened across the broad spectrum of musical styles from bluegrass to jazz, from Celtic reels to ragtime cakewalks.

The evening began on an almost impossibly high note. All four fiddlers -- plus Sam Bush on fiddle, too, although he played mandolin throughout …