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The new breath of the organ in France

2021-10-24T21:19:34.168Z


The king of instruments seduces an open and increasingly young generation, both male and female. A strange ballet is taking place this Sunday, October 24, in the Halles district. Behind the bay windows of Le Pied de Cochon, waiters are busy around tables barely cleared on singular harmonies, escapes from the church of Saint-Eustache. It's 6:15 a.m. The great organ has been playing continuously since 8 p.m. the day before. For the first time in France, sixty organists took turns, for twelve h


A strange ballet is taking place this Sunday, October 24, in the Halles district.

Behind the bay windows of Le Pied de Cochon, waiters are busy around tables barely cleared on singular harmonies, escapes from the church of Saint-Eustache.

It's 6:15 a.m.

The great organ has been playing continuously since 8 p.m. the day before.

For the first time in France, sixty organists took turns, for twelve hours, behind the instrument's mobile console.

“Musicians of all generations.

Both stars who perform all over the world and parish organists ”

, rejoices Philippe Lefebvre, President of Organ in France.

Cleanly bewitching

At the origin of the event, which will have seen several hundred spectators seated or lying around the guest organists throughout the night, the association did not just want to mark its 10th anniversary.

“Our primary intention was to show the fabulous diversity of the organist family in France,

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Source: lefigaro

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