(Photo by Les Jacobson)

Northwestern music majors Eden Stargardt (left), from Grand Rapids, and Blaine Dodson, from Baton Rouge, practice French horn in the campus garage by the music building. They said the acoustics were great and it was “much better than practicing in a stuffy rehearsal room.” Both are seniors planning on an orchestral career.

Les Jacobson

Les is a longtime Evanstonian and RoundTable writer and editor. He won a Chicago Newspaper Guild best feature story award in 1975 for a story on elderly suicide and most recently four consecutive Northern...