Interview: Organist Olivier Latry

“No matter how tired I am, I can enter the loft and practise for hours,” says Notre Dame’s titulaire, Olivier Latry, before his tour with the NZSO.

By Cheryl Pearl Sucher In Classical

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26th May, 2012

Interview

The grand organ might be the most misunderstood instrument in the classical repertoire. It requires not only a stage but a town hall or cathedral to display its myriad pipes and is usually only performed on during such solemn occasions as invocations, masses, weddings and funerals. Its resonance can drown out the most sophisticated ghettoblaster and at full power its music can send tremors through your feet and stand your hair on end. Olivier Latry, the titulaire or main organist at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, who is performing with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra as part ...

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