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Notre Dame in Paris has a reopening date

Amazing they were able to save it - let alone reopen so quickly!
 
I am very glad that they were able to restore that great cathedral. They were also able to learn a great deal about its original construction.
I watched a very interesting show about it on PBS. They found things they had previously no idea about. I don’t remember what it was called but it shouldn’t be hard to find.
 
I watched a very interesting show about it on PBS. They found things they had previously no idea about. I don’t remember what it was called but it shouldn’t be hard to find.
Two episodes of NOVA covered it. They were probably watchable free before time passed. I think you have to join PBS Passport now to see them.


 
Amazing they were able to save it - let alone reopen so quickly!


It's more amazing than many of us realize. Reportedly, if the fire had been only a bit hotter, the stone walls would have started to disintegrate. Even after the fire, they had to do a good bit of work to stabilize the walls to make sure they didn't come tumbling down once work started.

As for reopening so quickly, Macron put a former general in charge of the reconstruction for that reason. (*k*)
He (Macron) had wanted very badly for Notre-Dame to be reopened in time for the Paris Olympics, but I think that was always unlikely.

I wonder how long it's going to take them to put the enormous, complicated organ back in place, something they can't really do until all the other work is done.
 
I didn't see this until yesterday morning, but The New York Times Magazine posted an interactive article about restoring the acoustics in Notre-Dame -- including recordings of how a piece of music would sound at different places within the cathedral.


The piece is Viderunt omnes, written (probably) for Christmas 1197/New Year's 1198 at Notre-Dame de Paris by a composer called Pérotin or Perotinus.
 
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Five years after a devastating fire, French President Macron got a preview of the refurbished interior of Notre Dame Cathedral, several days ahead of the general public (!w!)


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I didn't see this until yesterday morning, but The New York Times Magazine posted an interactive article about restoring the acoustics in Notre-Dame -- including recordings of how a piece of music would sound at different places within the cathedral.


The piece is Viderunt omnes, written (probably) for Christmas 1197/New Year's 1198 at Notre-Dame de Paris by a composer called Pérotin or Perotinus.
Great article! Thanks for posting. In his excellent, classic work--when I was teaching, it was always on my required reading list--"Experiencing Architecture", Steen Eiler Rasmussen has a chapter on the sound of architecture.
 
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