Rattle, who is joining the LSO in September 2017, has called the orchestra's current homes at the Barbican "a good concert hall but not a great concert hall".
The essential requirements of a good concert hall are surprisingly few.
This is our dream when you are a musician – to play in a good, comfortable hall with a wonderful acoustic.
He moved to the Oslo Philharmonic as music director in 1979, where he stayed more than two decades but fell out over the lack of a good concert hall (a battle he is now fighting, with minimal success, in Munich).
Harrison and Haye, two of the sport's most articulate practitioners, would have made a good music hall double act and, performing separately, they left their audience punchline-drunk yet again.
Or maybe it's best just to stick with a good concert hall, as Claudio Abbado did on Saturday evening, conducting his Orchestra Mozart Bologna and the Arnold Schoenberg Choir in Mozart's "Waisenhaus" Mass in C minor (K. 139) and Schubert's great Mass in E flat (D. 950) in the Haus für Mozart.
The narrator says if all of the president's lovers were organized, they would fill a good-sized hall.
The idea, Dr. Hidaka said, was to get a quantitative measure of what made the good halls good and the bad ones bad.
