26 — Wednesday, April 3, 1991 — North Shore News

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The Buigarian Women’s Choir dazzies

T SURELY ranks as the

most profoundly unex-

pected musical cross-over
success story since Tiny Tim
tiptoed through the tulips.

In 1987, Middle-aged Bulgarian
women bearing clearly melodic
and cleverly harmonic giits, scaled
pop chart ladders that were more
often the domain of thrashing,
keening, guitar-wielding youth.

The utter audacity inherent in
the collision of cultures would
have been enough to sustain a _
modicum of success in a time of
general searching for new sounds
on the politically correct World
Beat tront.

Yet here we are, four years since
the 1987 Nonesuch Records
release of Le Mystere Des Vor
Bulgares (The Mystery of Bulgarian
Voices) and the fascination with
the mysterious Slavic Choristers
continues.

The Bulvarian State Femaic
Vocal Choir returns to Vancouver
&p.m., Friday April 19 to pertorm
at the acoustically commodious
Orpheum Theatre.

The choir members, repre-
senting the many rexions ot
Bulgaria, join the chetr on the

Theatre B.C. g

SPRING MARKS the beginning of

the annual Theatre B.C. 1991
North Shore Zone Festival of
Plays.

The winner of the annual com-
petition, open to al! focal amateur
theatre groups, will represent the
North Shore at the Theatre B.C.
Festival of the Arts in Nelson, June
2-8.

All. plays will be performed at
Presentation House from April
22-27.

This year’s entries are: Journey’s
End (Monday, Apr. 22) presented
by Deep Cove Stage. This drama
examines life in the trenches, and
the notion that most tearn little or
nothing from war,

A Taste of Honey (Apr. 23) is a
comedy-drama about a young
girl's struggle with herself and the
social values of ‘60s London.
Directed by Sarah-Anne Dafoe, it
is First Impression Theatre's 1997
entry.

North Vancouver Community
Players are mounting Sister Mary
ignatious Explains it all For You

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precious.

Michael Becker

RECORD REVIEW vibrato and a

basis of stringent competition.

North American critics have
gushed mightily in response to the
crisp choral sound: “continually
astonishing’’ — The New York
Times: “the most beautiful nyusic
on the pianet’” — St. Louis Post
Dispatch; ‘a kind of passionate
belting’ — New York Post:

‘ deliciousiv dissonant” — San
Francisco Chronicle; “the hip-
pest show on earth” — L.A.
Weekly.

And the gushing is appropriate.
The 24 voices appeal on a number
of gut levels:

* The Look -— is anti-star. With
ages and body-types all over the
spectrum, there is a refreshing
rodtedness in the real world not

and its companion piece, The Ac-
tor’s Nightmare (Apr, 24).

Sister Mary is a biting, irreverent,
uproariously tunny satire which
aims its barbs at organized religion
— and strikes home with hilarious
results,

On Apr. 25 West Vancouver
Theatre tackles A.R. Gurney Jr.'s -
The Cocktail Hour. |In this drama
Gurney explores the relationship
of a son who returns to his lamily
to ask his father's permission to
produce his latest play.

The next evening Whistler
Players presents Peace Is...a play
about, you guessed it, peace. This
work was written with the help of
people from varied backgrounds.

The last entry in the festival is
The Cagebirds. Presented by Im-
pact Theatre (Seycove Theatre)
this drama explores how people
and society, rather than face the
truth, destroy it. Adjudicator lan
Fenwick will select the winners
following The Cagebirds.

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otten encountered in the carefully
packaged business of entertain-

* The Origin — exudes chic east
bloc exotica. Proud Asian Bulgars,
Soviet homogenization, to wring

from the Balkans something utterly

" The Sound — lots of quavering
“diaphonic” sing-

Roast

Cut from the Inside Round

ing style in which, according to
music commentator Ingram Mar-
shall, ‘voices track each other in
parallel intervals astounding to our
ears — seconds, sevenths and nin-
ths.”

The larger effect of the clear and
ringing voices atten verges on the
sublime. On the 1987 release,
soloist Yanka Roupkina dances on
clouds with her marvellous solo
effort.

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Tickets for the upcoming Van-
couver show are available through
Ticketmaster at 280-4444 or at
Black Swan Records, Highlife Re-
cords, the Vancouver Folk Music
festival office (879-2931) or the
Coastal Jazz and Blues Society of-
fice (682-0706). The show, which
will not be amplified, is jointly
presented by the Vancouver Folk
Music Festival and the Coastal Jazz
And Blues Society.

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