Author: By John Moore Special to The Gazette
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Colorado Symphony’s upcoming season includes nearly 100 concerts
The Colorado Symphony announced its long-awaited return to normal concert operations with a 2021-22 season featuring 49 titles across 90 concerts. Among the highlights will be an April 2 concert appearance by Leslie Odom Jr., who this year was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance as Sam Cooke in the film “One Night…
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Slain Arvada policeman Gordon Beesley was calm presence on chaotic Denver music scene
Gordon Beesley never should have been in a band, The Railbenders frontman Jim Dalton once said. “He’s just too good for this crazy world.” But Beesley was in a band – several of them, in fact, before finding his true calling as an Arvada police officer in 2002. Beesley was killed in the line of…
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Colorado natives to perform for American Ballet Theatre in Green Mountain Falls
Boulder natives Claire Davison and Leah Baylin were born into the ballet, but neither has performed in Colorado since becoming members of the prestigious American Ballet Theatre. That changes June 25 when the famed dance company concludes a four-week residency with two days of outdoor performances at Green Box Arts Festival in Green Mountain Falls.…