Word: princess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...question arises about the way Fuller should sing the line "hearts of stone, heart of fire" which Hilarion, the hero, sings to his beloved, Princess Ida. Everyone pauses for a moment. Krag, Fuller and Gratto discuss various interpretations and finally compromise with Krag saying, "Emphasize the note on heart and the diction on stone and fire." Throughout the evening the singthrough is punctuated by conferences, laughter and corny jokes. Afterwards, walking back to North House. Krag talks about choosing the cast. The auditions were low-key and relaxed; Krag and Gratto sat cross-legged on a couch and listened...
...thing for an accompanist to do. That led to an offer for the next fall to be associate music director with John Posner for Fiorello!, a Grant-In-Aid production, which led to an offer this spring from the Gilbert and Sullivan board, to be music director of Princess...
...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 Krag has high praise. "The more I can talk to her, the happier I'll be, because she just knows so much." Unlike some music professors, who approach...
...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 good advice...