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...After recently completing a three-month tour of Europe, the group?Eos, Tania Davis, Haylie Ecker and Gay-Yee Westerhoff?embark on a 16-date concert tour in Asia this week. Expectations are high. Nearly one-third of Born sales has come from the region, an unusually high proportion for a debut album by Australian and British musicians. The bond bombshells may give purists a bad case of classical gas, but their tracks play so well against those of regional pop bands that the group was awarded a coveted opening slot at the recent inaugural MTV Asia Awards...
...wanting a career beyond second chair in the string section of the Shropshire Philharmonic. Give the prodigies their props: bond's music is not warmed-over Bach. The playlist for their Asian tour contains but one classical cover: Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Most tunes are original compositions by Westerhoff, Eos and contemporary New Age songwriters...
...Westerhoff, 28, says the girls are toning down their attire for Asia in deference to regional rectitude. But there are no plans to dump their formula and venture into pop singing, as Vanessa-Mae has. "Few people have gone into this area of music, so it's natural to compare us to her," Eos, 26, says. "But that's okay. She's nice. She bought us some champagne when we bumped into her in Switzerland." Reinventing the string quartet is sweaty work?but it has its perks...
Along with the debate over their form comes the tricky question of why some people can "see" angels while others cannot. "Angels exist through the eyes of faith, and faith is perception," observes Westerhoff. "Only if you can perceive it can you experience it. For some, their faith doesn't have room for such creatures. That's not to demean their faith. That's just the way they are; they can't believe things that aren't literal, that are outside the five senses...
...gods, and they are not ghosts or spirits of the dead. They do not spend time "trying to earn their wings," like the sweetly ministering Clarence of It's a Wonderful Life. "I know of no place in classical theology where humans become angels," notes the Rev. John Westerhoff, a pastoral theologian at Duke University's Divinity School. "Angels were created separately and were given free will, just as humans were. That's why there were fallen angels, like Satan. Their fallenness had to do with a denial and distortion of angelic life just as our fallenness...