A South Bank Master Plan Falls Short?

London’s South Bank Center is reopening next year after a 110 million pound makeover. What will go inside? A plan has been announced “intended as a radical blueprint for a new era of cultural activity in Britain’s most prestigious and heavily funded arts centre. The heavily-trailed ‘vision’ incorporates closer collaboration between four resident orchestras at the Royal Festival Hall – the Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, London Sinfonietta and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.”