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Eliot House Committee, Chairman B.C.? Board of Dir. Model U N Under Sec General Radcliffe Choral Society Asst Mgr. Harvard Men's Varsity Hockey...
...Choral Music--"Four Centuries of German Choral Music"; Busch-Reisinger Museum...
...answer, quite simply, is "no." Krieger does not feel any mystical attachments to the changing young faces of the Harvard choral scene. Indeed, he says, "I like them most of the time, but not all of the time. It's disappointing, sometimes, to see then reinventing the wheel year after year...
During high school, he played a Concert Artists' Guild recital in Steinway hall, played the Beethoven Third Piano Concerto with a local orchestra, and taught himself to accompany choral music on piano. It was this skill that brought him into the choral music circle that was blossoming his freshman year under "Woody"--G. Wallace Woodworth. Krieger accompanied the Glee Club throughout his undergraduate years, after which, in one of his two breaks away from Harvard choral music since 1955, he attended medical school at Western Reserve. During his time there, he accompanied the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, under the direction...
Krieger tells the story of one particularly memorable concert in New Orleans, at a convention of the National Conference of Americal Choral Directors. The convention featured concerts by choral groups of all kinds, from elementary school kids' choruses to large professional groups. The Harvard Glee Club sang the last pieces in the program. "It was a twenty minute program," Krieger says, "and we sang really well. Almost as well as we had ever sung. Afterwards, someone came up to me on the bus and said, 'You're part of the Harvard Glee Club, aren't you? If it hadn...