Word: gilberte
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...shape of the Agassiz stage, a tiny area that will somehow have to accommodate 26 costumed actors. Two columns of support beams march in formation down the length of the room, through the stage, and iron grating covers the windows. Originally Shannon was the ROTC building. Now the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players use it as a place in which to hold rehearsals and build sets for their productions...
Tonight all the lights are on for the second rehearsal of Princess Ida, Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan's spring production. Tom Fuller '74, an earnest tenor who has starred in four past Gilbert and Sullivan shows, is singing at one end of the room. Standing in front of him, next to a working piano, is Karen Krag '76, the music director and conductor for Princess Ida. Krag is singing along with Fuller, using a pencil as a baton, and swaying from side to side with the rhythm of the music. Her long, thick hair is plaited into two golden brown...
Krag is the first woman to conduct a Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan musical and probably the first female undergraduate to conduct any Harvard production. It is not a distinction that particularly impresses her and only occasionally has it been called to her attention by anyone else. When she asked Michael Loo to be her concertmaster, a service he has performed for past Gilbert and Sullivan shows, he replied, "What happened? Did no one else want to be conductor?" but comments like his have been rare. Krag is not an Antonia Brico, either in her ambitions or disappointments. Talent and effort...
...points of emphasis, interjecting at a particular phrase, "Dance it," and indicating with her hands and body how she wants the melody to move. For the next few weeks she will be teaching the singers their music and trying to improve their diction. Most of the humor of a Gilbert and Sullivan play depends on being able to hear and understand the words. Intonation and inflection come after getting the t's and d's right...
...hundreds of thousands of guests and tourists. In 1814 the picture became part of the American legendry when it was removed by the doughty Dolley Madison just before the British arrived to burn the place down. What is more, the painting is by that greatest of American portraitists, Gilbert Stuart...