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In Pictures: LSO At Trafalgar Square

The London Symphony Orchestra performed its second free ‘Open Air Classics’ concert in the sun yesterday.

The Milton Court exterior come September, a new shop-front for the Guildhall School

Inside Milton Court, The Barbican’s New Neighbour

Londonist takes a tour of a building set to reinvigorate the City of London’s culture hub.

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London Symphony Orchestra to Perform Trafalgar Square Concerts

The LSO gets out into the open air.

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Stars And Much More For Barbican 2012 Arts Jamboree

Culture vultures may find themselves camped out at the Barbican during the Olympic year.

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Maritime Rites, Sound Sculpture

Composer Alvin Curran and the London Symphony Orchestra will be performing Maritime Rites on the banks of the Thames outside Tate Modern and on a barge on the water itself this Friday evening. Described as a sound sculpture, Maritime Rites is a semi-improvised live event …

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A Throw Of Dice, Live Orchestral Screening

Blimey. It’s as if the benevolent lords of music, film and free outdoor events put all their goodies into a bag, shook it up and tipped it out over Trafalgar Square. On Thursday night, like on many nights so far in the India Now festival, …

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Video Games Live and Puerto Muerto

Two very different music events are scheduled for this weekend and they are each so unique and original we had to put them back to back just to revel in the extreme oddness of each. We’ll go with the bloody, messy, macabre event first. Skip …

High Culture Makes Good Deterrent

This is either the greatest or the stupidest story so far this year: Metronet are going to start piping in classical music in to Tube stations in an effort to “deter yobs”. Their claim is that trials of the ‘system’ (which uses “CD technology” apparently) …