A friend very kindly texted me a live stream video link of the reopening ceremony at Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, celebrating five long years of monumental reconstruction after the devastating fire in 2019.

Here is an archived YouTube video from Friends of Notre Dame de Paris:

It’s a four-hour long video… the beautifully restored bells, pipe organ and choral Gregorian chant start around 2:07.

And just in time to celebrate France’s happy success!

I had just recently bought a copy of Léonin, Pérotin: sacred music from Notre-Dame Cathedral, available from Lulu Press as a print-on-demand. It’s a collection of two-, three- and four-part organum, originally recorded by Tonus Perigrinus and available on their CD, Sacred Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral (Naxos 8.557340). I find it works wonderfully on wire and cross-strung harp! (You may have some difficulty with that eight part polyphony at the end tho

It’s a performing edition of music from the 13th-century Magnus liber Organi.

I’ll write later in an upcoming post on my experiences playing two-part organum on wire harp.

Notre Dame Rose Window image source: Ken and Nyetta, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons