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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mystery. Score two, in fact: one for each volume of Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares. (Or, The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices to you, Rambo.) In 1987 the weirdest album to appear on the reliably eccentric British pop charts was the first volume of folk music recorded by this choir of two dozen Bulgarian women. Journals recorded approving, indeed awed, comments from the likes of George Harrison. The group caught on, and a record that had roughly the commercial potential of Botha: Live in the Transvaal! became a surprise hit. Released in America by Elektra/Nonesuch, the record attracted so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Voices From Another Time | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

They perform with a Harlem gospel choir on a version of I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For that becomes a bit of casual exaltation ex rock cathedra. They cook up a new song for the great bluesman B.B. King, When Love Comes to Town, and kick out the jams together. They corral Dylan into playing Hammond organ on an extraordinary new tune, Hawkmoon 269, and press him into harmony-singing and lyric-writing service on Love Rescue Me, a high point not only for the band but also for their informal spiritual adviser. The Edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: U2 Explores America | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...strains of a folk singer, a gospel choir and a '50s rock n' roll band, community activists, local politicans and leaders of the Rainbow Coalition mingled, politicked and griped about the Presidential ticket...

Author: By Peter S. Kozinets, | Title: Leaders Mark Mel King's 60th | 10/25/1988 | See Source »

...Paul's sold its rectory and parking lot on Bow Street last year for $7 million in part to fund the building of the facility, which will include a new choir school and a expanded student center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: St. Paul's Plans New Center | 10/12/1988 | See Source »

Harvard's plans for the station are in their early stages, so there is time to clean up the site before construction must start. But St. Paul's Parish has already had to put off its own construction project, on a new choir school and student center, while it looks into removing the waste from...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Square Building Lots Found Contaminated | 9/28/1988 | See Source »

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