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Article: A traveling man, with orchestra in tow
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- March 24, 2009
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Jonathan Gorst is proof we are the conductors of our own fate.
The Doherty High School graduate was a piano major at the
University of Northern Colorado School of Music in Greeley in the
mid-1990s when he saw "Phantom of the Opera" at Denver's Buell
Theatre.
"I thought, 'What a great job that would be just to play the
keyboard,'" he says.
He didn't get that job, but he's not complaining. He's the
orchestra conductor.
He recently finished a month of Phantom performances at the
Buell. You just missed him. The final curtain was Sunday.
Gorst, 36, has done big shows from Broadway to Berlin since he
left town in 1998 to play keyboard for the musical "Cats."
Gorst today heads to Kansas City, where ...