Word: forger
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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...
...them, music meant something," Forger said. "Here at Harvard most people are so successful, it's just a different environment from the inner-city. There, people really needed the music...
...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...
...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...
...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...