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Wheat Ridge High School’s music students are going to Germany
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The Wheat Ridge High School chorus and jazz band are going to Stade, Germany for concerts April 16-24. The performances are part of a two-decade-long relationship between local high schools and Stade, Germany. The relationship began as an offer to Lakewood’s high schools, according to Wheat Ridge High School vocal director Ryan Plakorus. “Stade, which is just outside of Hamburg in Germany, is sister cities with the City of Lakewood,” Plakorus explained. “That was actually 20 years ago, this year.” He said the partnership included trips between Stade and Lakewood for members of both communities. “So, there was kind of a builtin infrastructure between the cities that was already there,” Plakorus said. “And then the band director, an English SEE GERMANY, P7
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BEST OF THE BEST The Wheat Ridge High School jazz band and chorus are going to Germany as a part of a 20 year COURTESY OF WHEAT RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC DEPARTMENT relationship with Lakewood’s sister city, Stade, Germany.
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