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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...
Krieger began his long association with the Harvard Glee Club as a freshman in 1955, when he served as an accompanist for the group. With the exceptions of years taken off for medical training and military service, he has played the piano or sung for the group ever since. He has worked under the direction of four different Glee Club directors; has served as the group's graduate manager since 1968 and as tour physician since 1967. In addition, he has been graduate advisor to the Collegium Musicum since its founding 11 years ago, and, until this year, has sung...
What is it that keeps Krieger performing year after year, in the front row of Glee Club and Collegium concerts? To that question, he offers two answers. Officially he says, "I am the graduate manager to the Glee Club and the senior graduate advisor to the Collegium. By singing with the groups and helping out with the management first hand, I think I achieve a better idea of what my advising is all about. I don't think any previous advisor has ever been so involved with the groups. I am a very effective--and instrusive--graduate manager." The second...
...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 of Robert Shaw...
Krieger has never regretted his career decision; even his busy medical career allows him time to pursue his ardent musical interests, not only with the Glee Club and Collegium, but in other places as well. He plays chamber music with friends, does music directions for shows, and gives at least one formal recital each year at Dunster House, of which he is an affiliate...