Word: chorally
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BERNIE KRIEGER has been singing with the Harvard Glee Club since before any of the group's current members were born. A veteran of roughly a quarter century of Harvard choral music, Krieger--by profession an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Boston University Hospital--has become something of a legend among several generations of campus singers...
...perhaps "legend" is a misleading word. Bernie Krieger is by no means the William Tell of the Cambridge choral set; his name inspires neither awe nor tremendous admiration. And, unlike Robin Hood, he will probably not be the subject of many great tales of heroism and warm-hearted concern. Indeed, if Bernie Krieger is a legend, he is a legend after the fashion of Pinnochio: all the stories about him are tales of misadventure, tinged ever so slightly with a reluctant love...
Before Caldicott spoke, the Phi Beta Kappa members heard Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stanley Kunitz '26 read his unfinished work. "The Wellfleet Whale," and listened to choral music performed by the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum...
...does not pretend to be a music conservatory. Yet its admissions department strongly encourages serious musicians to apply. Performers can participate in any one of a number of organized ensembles, including the Harvard/Radcliffe Orchestra, the Bach Society, the Ensemble Society, the Wind Ensemble, the Harvard Jazz Band, and numerous choral groups. They have access to facilities as good as any in the Ivy League, and they can major in a department that specializes in music theory, composition and history...
...flutter of duets and trios and sprightly choral spectacles, the rejected Nemorino turns for help to the traveling doctor Dulcamara. This quintessential quack provides him with the magical "elixir of love" (A bottle of Bordeaux) which will transfix Adina's attentions. Adina and Belcore prepare for a gala wedding, and Nemorino sells himself into the army to buy the elixir, and his rich uncle dies, and the elixir works or maybe it doesn't, and brightly garbed townspeople dance and sing about wine and romance...