Local School Band Director Harley Brown Has Passed. Other than a short note, no other information was available at this time. Mr. Brown was the band director at Highland and Skyview High Schools for many years. He also organized and conducted a community orchestra in the Thornton/Northglenn/Welby/Mapleton area. We will post more as we gather information.
Photo: Harley & Mrs. Brown | from his Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10213757496832777&set=pb.1266848520.-2207520000&type=3
Warning Signs of Suicide – National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or if you want to discuss, call the old numbers at 800-273-TALK or 800-273-8255 for English and 888-628-9454 for Spanish. Learn the signs of someone who may be contemplating suicide.
Posting for my Veteran/singer/songwriter/musician friend Troy Hoss: Heavy on my heart so here goes: This is a very real problem … 22 Veterans a day surrender to their demons. #SuicideAwareness | Call Veteran’s Hotline: 988 #1 or 844-647-1354
From Care2 via Jock Bartley on Facebook: Trump shut down our LGBTQ+ suicide and mental health hotline, but CANADA opened a US toll-free number to theirs… so our citizens can get help anytime, at no cost: 1-877-330-6366
Kindness & empathy have no borders.
If you want to know more about any of the musicians we lost, find them at http://www.wikipedia.com
November 2026
10: Marcos Camino, 76, Argentine accordionist, suicide; Dick Lamb, 88, American disc jockey (WGH-AM, WWDE-FM, WVBW-FM), co-founder of Max Media; Arif Mirzayev, 82, Azerbaijani composer; Antonello Palombi, 58, Italian operatic tenor.
9: Maurice Hasson, 92, French-Venezuelan violinist; Manilal Nag, 87, Indian sitar player.
8: Brian Ahern, 81, Canadian record producer and guitarist; Johnny McEvoy, 81, Irish singer.
7: Richard Lloyd, 75, American guitarist (Television, Rocket from the Tombs), bile duct cancer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lloyd_(guitarist)
6: Michael Sanft, 55, American attorney (murder of Tupac Shakur).
From Wikipedia: Davis’s defense attorney Michael Sanft started off by questioning evidence and why he had not been charged earlier. Afterwards, he brought up the three detectives who were involved in the case of Shakur’s murder and the length of time they have been working on it . . . He claimed that detective Mogg’s work was “biased, sloppy, and incomplete.” Sanft suggested that detectives rather put all of their effort into convicting his client instead of finding out other theories and possibilities for the murder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Tupac_Shakur#Day_one
5: Rochelle Fleming, 72, American singer (First Choice); Hossein Omoumi, 82, Iranian musician. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Choice_(group)
4: Herbert Blomstedt, 99, Swedish-American conductor (Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, San Francisco Symphony).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Blomstedt
2: Clem Cattini, 89, English drummer (The Tornados, Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, Apollo 100), fall; Luis Rico, 81, Bolivian singer-songwriter.
1: Jacques Bolognesi, 79, French jazz musician (Orchestre National de Jazz); Tony Butala, 87, American singer (The Lettermen); Pavel Žák, 85, Czech composer and lyricist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Butala
