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Life for the singing monks of Santo Domingo de Silos has never been the same since they became recording stars. Last spring Chant, their Latin-language recording of medieval Gregorian sung prayer, achieved the nearest thing to a record-industry miracle: it ascended to No. 3 on the pop music charts, lodging next to hits by Snoop Doggy Dogg and Nine Inch Nails. Soon the ancient walls of their remote monastery in northern Spain were besieged by tourists and paparazzi. Even more troubling, the monks came to feel that their record company had given them a raw deal...
...Though Chant sold 6 million copies worldwide and grossed more than $50 million for EMI Records (whose stars range from Sinaad O'Connor to Digable Planets), Laurentino de Buruaga, the group's choirmaster, complains that the monks have earned a paltry $40,000 from it--hardly enough to patch the leaking roof over their medieval cloister. In response, the monks have followed the example of secular recording stars from time immemorial: they've switched labels. Their new CD, The Soul of Chant, was released last month by Milan Records, a smaller classical label...
...exactly midnight, chant this Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher quote in forced iambic pentameter: All political decisions are taken under great pressure, and if a treaty serves its turn for ten or twenty years, the wisdom of its framers is sufficiently confirmed...
Violence is on Wonder's mind--murder and mayhem, past and present, stateside and overseas. The swirling, soulful My Love Is with You ends with the chant "Ban the handgun." The anthemic yet prayerful title track, Conversation Peace, rages against ethnic cleansing, slavery and the Holocaust. "There's no chance of world salvation," sings Wonder, "'less the conversation's peace." And even the poppy, sing-along chorus of Take the Time Out--"Take the time out to love someone/ Reach your arms out and hug someone"--belies the fact that the verses are about lost souls caught...
...specimen keeps watch over the swimming pool of Court TV's Arthur Miller. A grotesque gaggle stars on its own Disney animated TV series. They're gargoyles--and for reasons no one can quite fathom they've become the hottest commodity to emerge from the Middle Ages since Gregorian chant. Though their scary Gothic ancestors patrolled the cathedrals of Europe, serving double duty as protectors from evil and divertors of rainwater, today's gargoyles are more likely to turn up as tchotchkes--pencil holders, bookends, and the like. They've also gone edible, in the form of Franco-American canned...