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...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...
...Larsen says that there is little rivalry between the collegiate groups. "We're all out there to make music," he says. "The only rivalry is that we want to be better--we certainly don't want them...
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...
...profit--as often as two or three times a week during the school year, O'Halloran says. Alumni donations and revenue from these gigs are the 42-year-old group's sole sources of income--and the means by which it has toured each summer since the 1960s. Larsen says that the Kroks are so well-known from their tours that they get invitations to perform from the likes of the Austrian royal family, the American ambassador to Switzerland and the Japanese parliament...
...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...