Billings Symphony Orchestra
- Billings Symphony Orchestra
The Billings Symphony Orchestra ia an American orchestra based in Billings, Montana.
The Symphony was founded in 1950, while the chorale was founded in 1955 [ [http://www.123exp-music.com/t/00331291307/ The Language of Music] ] . The Billings Symphony serves South Central Montana, Eastern Montana and Northern Wyoming as the only symphonic and chorale music in the region. The Billings Symphony Orchestra regularly plays at the Alberta Bair Theater[ [http://books.google.com/books?id=YRXr5RRLIGMC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=billings+symphony+orchestra&source=web&ots=5pSW3U1x1X&sig=iyL4z2Sp6LiHb2sphDoz_RjRQY4&hl=en Billings: The City and the People, Roger Clawson & Katherine A. Shandera, 1993, Farcountry Press, Billings (Mont.), ISBN 1560370378] ] .] Conductors
*1950 to 1955 - Robert Staffanson
*1955 to 1984 - George Perkins
*1984 to 2004 - Uri Barnea (First full-time music director & Conductor.)
*2005 to Present - Anne Harrigan [ [http://newbillingsoutpost.com/news//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16416&Itemid=27 Harrigan selected as new symphony conductor, The Billings Outpost, Vol. 8 - Issue 33, 19 May 2005] ]
References
External links
* [http://www.billingssymphony.org Billings Symphony]
* [http://www.innovarecordings.com/artist1.asp?skuID=197 Billings Symphony Music for Oboe and Orchestra]
* [http://www.wisephotography.com/harrigan/ Anne Harrigan biography page]
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