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| The Evanston native, who joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's double bass section in 1974, also plays bluegrass banjo (in the Bluegrass Turkeys and the CSOkies, a country-western band whose members' day jobs are with the Chicago Symphony), the organ (he has been the organist at Evanston's Bethlehem Lutheran Church), has gsung in the barbershop WolfGang Quartet, and played in the North Shore Concert Recorder Choir. Inspired by his parents -- both musicians -- Kraemer began studying bass in fifth grade. At 16, he joined the Civic Orchestra and studied under Harold Siegel and Joseph Guastafeste, still the Chicago Symphony's principal bass. While continuing his studies at California State University (Hayward), Kraemer was a member of the Oakland Symphony. His wife, Christine Marshall Kraemer, is a church organist, and a member of Northwestern University's music faculty...
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