Harry Silverstein News Today

You’d think Mozart and Conlon, popular at Ravinia Festival since stepping down in 2015, would be a winning combo. You’d be right.

It was the last week of our 2020 winter quarter. I taught Modern Dance where 20 students had rigorous physical and interpersonal contact for 10 weeks. Their symmetrical closeness balanced vulnerability, risk-taking, enthusiastic effort, with growth in technique and creative acts of original choreography. Who could have imagined their face-to-face, side-by-side proximity in our last class on March 12th, would become an odd site? After the cancellation of ‘Le Nozzi de Figaro’ student vocalis...