The Classics - Out to Lunch - It's Baton Rouge

To be a great city you have to have great performing arts
organizations. For nearly 70 years, the Baton Rouge Symphony
Orchestra has been delightingting audiences in the Capital Region,
with performances that rival those found in any major market in
America. The organization s Executive Director is Cary Byrd. Cary
started out as a French horn player with the symphony in the late
1990s. Since then he has helped lead the LSU School of Music, the
LSU College of Music and Dramatic Arts, the Houston Grand Opera and
Da Camera of Houston. One of the other pillars of the performing
arts in Baton Rouge is the Baton Rouge Ballet Theater. Founded in
1960, the company has built a solid reputation of excellence
through grassroots efforts and exceptional leadership. Over the
years, the Baton Rouge Ballet has nurtured hundreds of award
winning local dancers and choreographers, while bringing world
class professional dance to the Baton Rouge stage. Christy Benoit
is the Baton Rouge Ballet Theater s Director of Development and
Communications. Leanne Clement is general director of Opera
Louisiane. Founded in 2007, in its less than a decade existence,
Opera Louisiane has hired hundreds of local artists to perform in
such favorites as The Magic Flute, Madame Butterfly and the Barber
of Seville while creating a new generation of opera lovers with
their heavy focus on education. Photos taken over lunch at Mansur s
On the Boulevard by Ken Stewart.

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