Word: krag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although music has played a major role in Krag's experience of Harvard, in the eyes of the University it has been an extra-curricular interest. When she entered Radcliffe as a freshman she was unsure what the nature of her commitment to music would be. "The main idea I was toying with was to be a music major and a pre-med." Her freshman year she took Music 51, the general theory course for music concentrators, from F. John Adams. It turned out to be "pretty much of a bomb." "Adams has a fantastic ear, he can hear anything...
...Krag also met resistance when she tried to get independent work credit for the piano lessons she was taking outside the University. Through freshman and sophomore years she continued the lessons she had been taking since grade school and practiced three hours a day. But when Krag talked to the senior tutor of North House about calling her lessons independent work, "she was very against the general idea of it." Krag is getting credit for conducting Princess Ida, however, through a Music 91r, sponsored by Luise Vosgerchian, professor of Music. Vosgerchian is one member of the Music Department for whom...
...rehearsal the next night is for the chorus. Thirteen basses, tenors, altos and sopranos are huddled at one end of Shannon in a semicircle around Krag and the piano. Jay Banks, a Gilbert and Sullivan "groupie," is the accompanist. He's a small man, with brown hair, a brown beard, brown rimmed glasses, and a penchant for bright colored turtlenecks. He's a physics major at Harvard and has been involved in a lot of Gilbert and Sullivan shows, often unofficially. He has no part in Princess Ida but he comes to most of the rehearsals and often gives Krag...
...cast is loose and relaxed and the whole scene has the ambience of a group of friends who have gotten together for a good time. As the chorus finishes a passage, Krag smiles and says, "Beautiful!" then reminds the singers to emphasize diction and watch their pronunciation of consonants. She asks them to do the passage again and remains seated while she conducts. Only the pencil she is again using as a baton distinguishes her from the rest of the cast. Gratto, the director, is seated in the semicircle with the chorus. She is filling in for several sopranos...
...Krag is responsible for the music--vocal and instrumental--and Gratto is responsible for the blocking, the acting and the overall production. There is a lot of give and take between the two women. Krag often looks to Gratto for her opinion if not for advice. At this stage it is the petty details that keep causing problems--should the chorus sing "can't" or "can't," "humbly beg and humbly sue" or "soo." Each alternative is discussed, sung by the chorus and decided upon. When Krag admonishes the chorus to sing. "They are men of fight ha! ha!" louder...