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...This is a great chance for us to sing for charity, and also expose the world to this Ivy League tradition," said Larsen...
Despite this, there is an image of rugby players as beer-drinking, sing-song, no-holds-barred kind of guys...
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...
...course, the Kroks usually sing for 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...
Though originally their Moscow tour guide had them singing for tourists, the Kroks decided to take their act to the Soviet people themselves, says Thomas A. Shields '89. "Usually when we sing on the street, we can't do our quieter ballads because of all the noise. But the people there were so attentive. We sang every song we knew," he says. "I remember that afterwards, a really big guy came up to me and pointed to himself and said, 'Andre.' Then he pointed to me and said, 'Good.' I think that may have been the only English he knew...