The new multi-million pound venue for the London Symphony Orchestra is surprisingly old fashioned and may disrupt the delicate ecology of London’s musical life, says Ivan Hewett.
A huge concert hall for the digital age, with state-of-the-art acoustics; a place for all, with an ambitious educational offering to bring music-making to millions. That is what the proposal for a new Centre for Music in London offers. Plus the promise of a gleaming new building, which will surely be a vast improvement on the ghastly collection of 1970s brutalist buildings that currently make up the Barbican complex, to which it will be adjacent. London will finally have a world-class concert hall, which is no less than it deserves as the most vibrant musical city in the world, plus an iconic building to boot... Keep reading on The Telegraph
A huge concert hall for the digital age, with state-of-the-art acoustics; a place for all, with an ambitious educational offering to bring music-making to millions. That is what the proposal for a new Centre for Music in London offers. Plus the promise of a gleaming new building, which will surely be a vast improvement on the ghastly collection of 1970s brutalist buildings that currently make up the Barbican complex, to which it will be adjacent. London will finally have a world-class concert hall, which is no less than it deserves as the most vibrant musical city in the world, plus an iconic building to boot... Keep reading on The Telegraph