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...their way to the audience and lap up a few compliments, smiling broadly to middle-aged ladies who praise "the all-male sound." Interestingly, the fact that the Kroks is a boys' club isn't the only obstacle between them and political correctness; the one gay member of the group has recently decided to quit for reasons unclear. But on the whole, the polished aesthetic and masculine panache is pretty harmless, a way of amusing and reassuring themselves that their talent is appreciated...
...Overworked and ever-stressed Krok General Manager George Hicks, who has lined up two gigs for this Friday night and three for the next eveningoeach paying over a grandohad to whip out his over-used cell phone to call Stetson in his room and remind him to rejoin the group for their next concert. That was an hour ago and now Chess and the rest of the Kroks are sitting around in the parlor at the Faculty Club, waiting to sing for more corporate types fresh off a day at the Ryder Cup. Increasingly drunk, the PricewaterhouseCoopers crowd, who have...
...better or worse, the Kroks stand apart from their colleagues at Harvard. They are the oldest of the small, closed-harmony singing groups on campus, known (increasingly derisively) as the a capella groups. The Kroks' polish and tour itinerary are both unmatched, and their repertoire of songs from the 1920s through the 1950s has the kind of universal appeal that the contemporary pop tunes of other groups can't quite muster. They are reputed to have the highest budget per capita of any student organization at Harvard. Still, the Kroks are, in the end, a singing group. Cufflinks and secret...
...they have chosen an encore that's a bit dreary, a bit quiet and not at all appropriate for their drunken audience, with whom they've had to compete for attention all night. The Kroks' sense of showmanship doesn't always pan out, and afterwards, Wilson explains to the group that they should always run on stage for encores as a way to keep the audience enthusiastic. It is surprising that this logic is new to the group. McNeely privately complains that some of the guys are committing the ultimate faux pas, talking to each other, across the stage, during...
...even the thrill of the bar (it was nice, to be sure), the gratis filet mignon and the reliable applause could keep them singing this stuff for a dozen hours every week. Although the stirring ballad "Loch Lomond" is referred to simply as "Loch"--so often does the group sing it--several members of the group do know what the song is about, having visited the actual Loch on their summer tour. In the green of the Scottish Highlands, they sang the tune in what was, for one Krok, "the most sacred moment in my time in the group...