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Question of the Day By JENNY BAKER and The Winchester Star - Associated Press - Sunday, January 17, 2021
WINCHESTER, Va. (AP) - Rewarding and reaffirming - those are two of three words that Courtney Reilly, executive director of performances and engagement at Shenandoah Conservatory, used to describe the past 10 months.
And it goes almost without saying, this word as well: challenging.
The majority of the Conservatory’s approximately 700 students returned to campus this fall, for a school year like none other before it. Instead of preparing for concerts, theater, and musicals to be performed in front of hundreds at on-campus venues like Ohrstrom-Bryant Theatre and Armstrong Hall, students and Conservatory staff instead had a very different assignment: turning the majority of live performances into virtual ones.