Saturday, December 25, 2010

Conducting in the Army Now

(Photo: Farriella/Daily News)
Silas Nathaniel Huff, a founding member of the Astoria Music Society, has been chosen as one of an elite group of 22 U.S. Army Band officers.

Huff will leave his job as associate producer of opera at the Manhattan School of Music as well as his post as music director at the Astoria Music Society. The two orchestras he leads - the Astoria Symphony and the Round Rock Symphony in Texas - will be left in the hands of guest conductors while he is away.