The Harvard Krokodiloes

The Harvard Krokodiloes ("The Kroks") are Harvard University's oldest a cappella singing group, founded in 1946. The group consists of twelve tuxedo-clad undergraduates, and they sing songs from the Great American Songbook and beyond.[1]

The Harvard Krokodiloes
Also known asThe Kroks
OriginCambridge, Massachusetts, United States
GenresA cappella
Years active1946–present
Websitewww.kroks.com

The group has performed on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Good Morning America, National Public Radio, and on numerous international national television programs.[2] Each summer, the Krokodiloes travel around the world on an eleven-week, six-continent tour. They have recorded 31 albums.

They derive their name from the ancient Greek word for crocodile, krokodilos. The group's motto is Nunc Est Cantandum, or “Now is the time to sing.”[2]

History

The Kroks were founded in 1946, when four members of the Hasty Pudding Club at 12 Holyoke Street, popular for its drag musical theatre productions, began singing popular hits of their time in four-part harmony.[1]

The Krokodiloes have performed around the world for such luminaries as Ella Fitzgerald, Princess Grace of Monaco, Princess Caroline of Monaco, the Aga Khan, and King Bhumibol of Thailand. They had a particularly close relationship with Leonard Bernstein, who became friends with the group first in 1973, when he composed a setting to an E. E. Cummings poem "if you can't eat." In 1983 Bernstein wrote an original song for the group, "Screwed On Wrong," and provided an introductory letter that helped launch the group's first annual international summer tour.[3]

Since 1989 the group has appeared four times at Carnegie Hall, debuting there to a sold-out audience in 1989 at a concert to benefit world hunger, in the spring of 1995 in an American Red Cross benefit, in May 1998 in a concert for Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and most recently at Zankel Hall in March 2008.[4]

In , the Kroks performed at the Inaugural Ball celebrating the inauguration of US President Bill Clinton.

In 1997, the Kroks performed at the June 30 Hong Kong handover ceremonies commemorating the return of Hong Kong province to China.

Notable alumni

Krokodiloes alumni are listed on the group's archive website.[5]

gollark: "Oh yes, I will just go OUTSIDE the universe" - statements made by GTech™ exploration probe #15996-υ/4.
gollark: Where else would they go?
gollark: What? Of course they are in our universe.
gollark: Those aren't heaven and hell, silly.
gollark: > The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed from available data. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, “Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days.” Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition seven times seven (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or fifty times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one ten-thousandth of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that. With these data we can compute the temperature of Heaven. The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses fifty times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E)^4 = 50, where E is the absolute temperature of the earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed, but it must be less than 444.6C, the temperature at which brimstone or sulphur changes from a liquid to a gas. Revelations 21:8 says “But the fearful, and unbelieving … shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.” A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, or 444.6C (Above this point it would be a vapor, not a lake.) We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C. – “Applied Optics”, vol. 11, A14, 1972

References
  1. About the Harvard Krokodiloes.
  2. http://www.kroks.com/history History of the Harvard Krokodiloes, from the group’s website.
  3. Ireland, Corydon. "Three-day extravaganza fetes Bernstein." Harvard University Gazette, 2006-10-19. Archived 2008-05-11 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Notice of 2008 Carnegie Hall performance. Archived 2008-01-23 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "Krok Archives: Alumni and In Memoriam". Retrieved 2019-10-30.
  6. George Howe Colt, 2003 National Book Award Finalist: Nonfiction Archived 2008-09-08 at the Wayback Machine, The National Book Foundation. Accessed online 17 November 2008.
  7. Politico.com (2008). Exclusive: Gregory Craig to be White House counsel. Retrieved November 16, 2008.
  8. History News Network Interview Archived 2009-06-27 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved December 8, 2008.
  9. Leo Kiely, MillerCoors Company bio Archived 2011-07-14 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed online 17 November 2008.
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