Word: concertize
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This Sunday, the Krokodiloes will join a capella groups from Yale and Princeton to sing at a benefit concert at Carnegie Hall to celebrate World Food Day, with the proceeds going to the Interfaith Hunger Appeal, a group committed to providing food to the world's poor. The show, which will be emceed by Tony Randall, has already sold out the 2500-seat auditorium, says Jan C. Larsen '89, general manager of the Kroks...
Members of the all-male a capella group say they are excited to be able to perform at the famous concert hall. "It's about the most exciting thing we'll do musically this year. [Carnegie Hall] is one of the two best concert halls in the world," says Paul M. Lincoln '90. "We've already played the Musikvehrein [in Vienna], so I guess this...
Though the three groups have performed on the same bill before, the Carnegie Hall concert will mark the first time that all three will sing a song together. The concert will close with a performance in unison of a spiritual called "By and By." Larsen says that although the groups have been rehearsing the song individually, they will not get to practice together until right before the show. But he adds that he envisions few problems because of the song's simplicity and the singers' talents...
Harvard students who didn't catch the Krokodiloes in Moscow or weren't quick enough in snapping up the $100 tickets to the Carnegie Hall concert will be able to see them perform with the Whiffenpoofs, the Radcliffe Pitches and the Yale Whim-N-Rhythm at Sanders Theatre after the Yale Game on November 19. "It'll be almost just like Carnegie Hall, but right here in Cambridge," Larsen promises...
Last year several concerts discussed by the council failed to materialize, but Ron Lee says that lack should not be a detriment to his campaign. "I think the fact we will probably have a concert this year shows it was not a matter of negligence, just the time and opportunity wasn't quite right...