$250M centre for arts
NZPA London The Barbican Centre, a new £143 million (about $250 million) arts complex in the City of London financial district. was unveiled to the press yesterday to the strains of a Mozart piano concerto.
As Rudolf Serkin rehearsed the Mozart D Minor Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra under its conductor, Claudio Abbado, journalists got their first glimpse of the largest arts and recreation centre of its kind in Western Europe. The Barbican Centre — so called because it stands adjacent to the remains of London’s Roma and Medieval City Wall, or Barbican — is a 10-floor complex covering 2.5 h- in a part of Londonravaged by the Blitz. Its 2000-seat concert hall becomes home for the London Symphony Orchestra — first of the capital’s four independent orchestras to have a home of its bwn — while the Barbican Theatre will be the permanent London headquarters of the Royal Shakespeare Company. The L.S.O. and R.S.C. announced full programmes for 1982 at the Barbican. The centre will open officially on March 3, but preview events, including Serkin playing Mozart, are already under way..
The project includes another small theatre,. three cinemas, public library, art gallery and sculpture court, indoor garden, fountains and concourse, restaurants, and conference rooms,
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Press, 31 October 1981, Page 8
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