Less than 5 percent of the ticket revenue from a Carnegie Hall concert  Sunday night touted as a Haiti fund-raising event will actually go to earthquake relief, reports The New York Times.

A long-scheduled performance by the pianist Lang Lang and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra was turned into a Haiti benefit at Mr. Lang’s request. A sell-out would bring in $190,000, but the costs of marketing, hall rental, and other overhead would leave less than $8,000 for Haiti relief, according to an accounting by CAMI Music, Mr. Lang’s management agency.

CAMI Music and the firm Montblanc, a sponsor of the artist’s current tour, will provide a combined $60,000 in subsidies, raising the donation bottom line. Unicef, the concert’s beneficiary, said regardless of how much is raised, the performance will help Haiti by keeping the relief effort in the public mind.

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