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A Sound Mirror: Notre Dame Cathedral's Restoration Can Be Heard in Its Resonance

A Sound Mirror: Notre Dame Cathedral's Restoration Can Be Heard in Its Resonance

Update: 2024-12-24

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Notre Dame's longest serving organist Olivier Latry tells of the cathedral's transformed acoustics. After a horrific fire in 2019, craftspeople resurrected the cathedral in just five years. The organist says the thorough cleaning of the instrument and the structure's stone makes the cathedral even more reverberant. Sign up for State of the World+ to listen sponsor-free and support the work of NPR journalists. Visit plus.npr.org.

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A Sound Mirror: Notre Dame Cathedral's Restoration Can Be Heard in Its Resonance

A Sound Mirror: Notre Dame Cathedral's Restoration Can Be Heard in Its Resonance