Church music: Young organists pull out all the stops to inspire interest in a “complex” instrument
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, reports that young musicians have taken to the organ at a time when there has been a decline in the number of instruments and in the professionals who play them…
Slow music: Chord change in Germany of 639-year organ piece
Halberstadt/Berlin, Germany AP Hundreds of fans attended a special kind of musical happening Saturday at a church in Germany: a chord change in an organ piece that is supposed to last for an entirety of 639 years. The performance of the “ORGAN/ASLSP,” or As Slow As Possible, composition began in September, 2001, at the St […]
Notre Dame Cathedral’s organ getting four-year-long cleaning
Paris, FranceAP Pipe by precious pipe, the organ that once thundered through Notre Dame Cathedral is being taken apart after last year’s devastating fire. The mammoth task of dismantling, cleaning and re-assembling France’s largest musical instrument started Monday and is expected to last nearly four years. It will take six months just to tune the […]