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...After Krag decided not to concentrate in music, she did a short stint in anthropology and then, at the end of her sophomore year, switched into the biology department. Being a pre-med and a musician doesn't seem to cause any internal conflicts--she grew up with both interests and has always pursued them simultaneously. "When I was little I always wanted to be a vet," she says, and that desire, at some point, changed into a desire to be a doctor. She thinks now that she'd like to be a general practitioner or a gynecologist and obstetrician...
...doesn't regret starting lessons so late, "because when I did begin, my parents didn't have to nag me to practice." She spent the first month of the past summer studying intensively under Russell Sherman, a teacher associated with the New England Conservatory. Sherman at one point, Krag says, told another pupil of his that "he took me on to broaden his horizons." She practised eight hours a day and "got my playing to as high a level as it could ever be." That experience fulfilled a need but also reinforced what she had always known. "Total immersion...
...though she intends to go on in science after graduating and says, "I don't think after I get out of here that I'll ever conduct," she also adds, "I'm much more tied up in music than in my biology right now." When I first talked to Krag, over dinner in North House, she said that she turns premed only during reading and exam periods. Later she told me that wasn't really true, that she did work and just used her time efficiently, and then she added, "I essentially did Chem 20b during spring reading period." There...
...laaaaaa. Up and down the scale, hold for 12 beats, faster, slower, "watch my hands!" The chorus is finishing its warmups. After it sings the first number, Krag remarks, "The reason we went over diction in the beginning was so you would do it in the song. Also, there was no difference between the forte and the rest of the song." It is the mildest of reproofs...
...Krag asks one of the singers, "Do you want to run over your part now or later?" He decides to do it now. Several minutes later she asked another singer. "Do you want to do this a second time?" When one of the tenors stumbles over a passage he's done well before, she tells him. "You'll be better when you get more people singing." The cast is in a boisterous mood, and they're paying less attention than usual. Songs that were practiced in earlier rehearsals sound ragged and the singers are faltering over the words when they...