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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When you first meet someone of the opposite sex, the first thing you say is not 'I'm an organ player," Forger chuckles. "They'll think you're a monk...or they'll misinterpret what you mean by 'organ...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Organists Are Just Normal People | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

President of the 15-member Organ Society at Harvard, Forger has been playing for about 10 years, expanding his range on organs everywhere from inner-city meeting houses to Johann Bach's home church in Germany...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Organists Are Just Normal People | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

Forger (an applied math concentrator) says the Organ Society--composed entirely of non-music majors--has been grappling with "image problems" that have kept listeners...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Organists Are Just Normal People | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...When you say 'organist' people usually think of the Phantom of the Opera," Forger says, noting that while the recent Halloween concert of "Scary Organ Music" sponsored by the Organ Society was packed, the society's funds ran dry this year. Finding ways to attract audiences to the society's guest organ recitals while expanding his own range with skilled organists at the College has become Forger's primary extracurricular activity...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Organists Are Just Normal People | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...challenges we have is that we don't play the most popular music. But the music we do play is wonderful," says Forger, describing his personal passion for works from jazz organ to Gershwin and his predilection for the grandiose, "emotional" French Romantics...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Organists Are Just Normal People | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

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