On the evening of April 15, Olivier Latry, one of the world’s greatest organists, arrived at a hotel in Vienna ahead of a planned concert. “I had just put my luggage down and received a text,” he said in a telephone interview. “But then a second picture arrived …” He trailed off. “It was like a bad dream.”A day earlier, Mr. Latry — one of the three main organists at Notre-Dame — had played the cathedral’s Grand Organ on Palm Sunday. It had been a beautiful service, he said, especially the moment when, according to tradition, a priest knocked on the cathedral’s door with his processional cross and demanded to be let in.

Source: New York Times April 24, 2019 12:15 UTC