Yeah, OK, stories in the business section indicate otherwise but don’t tell Chip and Nancy Sagar that the local housing market is in the tank. Not after their home in Denver’s Hilltop neighborhood sold 15 minutes after it was listed. And with the ink barely dry on the contract, the spokeswoman for Neiman Marcus Cherry Creek and her husband turned right around and bought in the Polo Club.
The Sagars’ experience, alas, isn’t what’s happening for photographer John Fielder. “Can you tell anyone who might like a nice place on the Highline Canal that my house is still for sale?” he asked during the cocktail reception that Ernie Blake and Sharon Magness Blake had to kick off plans for the National Repertory Orchestra’s 2007 Summer Gala.
Hearing the word “house” brought Judi and Marvin Wolf into the conversation. “We’re done,” Judi exclaimed, referring to the rebuild of their Cherry Hills Village manse, a project that took five years to complete. “Our stuff’s been in storage so long that I’m unpacking clothes I didn’t even know I owned,” she said.
Gala’s added attraction
If an announcement was made at the kickoff party, we missed it, so maybe it’s supposed to be a surprise. But news this good needs to get out ASAP, and here it is: Lee Greenwood of “God Bless the USA” fame will make a special appearance at the NRO’s Summer Gala. His good buddy Sharon Magness Blake, who is chairing the June 23 affair with Suzy Witzler, told me Greenwood and his band will do “three or four numbers” that night, sharing the spotlight with the 85-member NRO.
Aria you ready?
The 2007 Opera Volunteers International conference is being held July 19-22 in Denver and Nancy Parker, president emeritus of the Central City Opera board, is chairing it … Opera Colorado has received one of Opera America’s Bravo! awards for its outreach into the Hispanic community. The company formed a Latino advisory committee to help market the newly commissioned “La Curandera,” a chamber opera for children with strong Hispanic themes.
