Bill McLean

THE MAESTRO

For one inning circa 2006, during a Major League Baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field in Denver, Stephen Alltop sat behind a legend in the press box. The music director of both the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra and Apollo Chorus of Chicago watched. And listened. And … tingled.

DREAM RIDER

Twenty-one years ago, a pony named Spot and a 9-year-old named Anita Mont got along as well as a mechanical bull and a first-time rider might. Not very well. “Spot bucked me off every day,” Mont, now 30, fondly recalls. “He’d been under saddle for only 60 days when I first rode him. It wasn’t

GALLOPING GOOD DAY

A TONE-SETTER at a Kentucky Derby-themed event doesn’t get better than that of an actual horse greeting guests at the door. Listen for friendly snorts and welcoming neighs to fill the air at Onwentsia Club in Lake Forest on May 6— Kentucky Derby Day, 2023—before the start of this spring’s Women’s Board of Northwestern Medicine

JOHN OF ALL TRADES

Musician, psychotherapist, priest. Lake Forest native John Moulder, 61, is all of the above—the equivalent, career-wise, of either an adept circus performer spinning way too many plates on poles or an ace juggler chucking and catching more than a few clubs. “My three worlds,” says Moulder, who also teaches music in his basement in Skokie

A SPIRITED COLLABORATION

Between the ages of 10 and 18, former Barrington High School soccer star Jenny Solberg often climbed trees in her neighbors’ yards in the fall months and shook, shook, shook the limbs. The center midfielder—now 34-year-old Jenny Solberg Katzman mother of a precious hat trick (Sienna, 4; Wade, 2; and Eva, six months)—had placed a

SHIFTING TO A HIGHER GEAR

John Nichols’ first sprint triathlon in 2005 didn’t go so swimmingly. “Horrible experience,” the Winnetkan recalls. “Rough. I was heavy, grossly out of shape … kind of an idiot. But I wanted to race again. I wanted to train properly for my next race.” Two years later, the former collegiate lacrosse and hockey player entered

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