There’s no way the new London Concert Hall can find the funding it needs, nor keep to its £288m budget, nor plough ahead with a plan that has acoustic shortcomings. Why is anyone still supporting the idea – and how would its (unlikely) creation go down in areas of the country facing derelict housing and grim unemployment, asks Norman Lebrecht.
Like Theresa May with her thrice-spurned deal, the London Symphony Orchestra is pressing ahead with plans for a concert hall to be achieved at a price that no-one believes and for which it has no visible resources. Like Mrs May, the LSO is relying on friendly journalists to distract the public’s attention from the huge black holes in the plan, hoping against hope that momentum alone will carry the day against all reasonable logic... Keep reading on The Spectator