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£191 million repairs and revamp of Barbican Centre approved with work to ‘start in 2027’

Grade-II listed site is the home of the London Symphony Orchestra

Evening Standard

Brand Impact Awards 2024: the 20 top-performing agencies since the BIAs began

Find out who's won the most trophies over 11 years of the Brand Impact Awards.

Creative Bloq

Why we're awarding two Best of Shows at this year's Brand Impact Awards

We start a new decade of the BIAs giving equal weight to brand campaigns and brand identities once again

Creative Bloq

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LSO/Pappano review – new era begins with ghosts and great beauty

Chief conductor’s kicks off his first season with the London Symphony Orchestra with energy and thrilling drama in beguiling Sibelius and a new work from James MacMillan

The Guardian - UK

Hip-hop band Cypress Hill makes 1996 Simpsons joke come true

London Symphony Orchestra to play Black Sunday album at Royal Albert Hall decades after featuring on TV show

The Guardian - UK

Cypress Hill To Perform With London Symphony Orchestra In 2024

Cypress Hill and the London Symphony Orchestra will perform together at the Royal Albert Hall, fulfilling a long-awaited prediction from The Simpsons.

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Wigs, kisses and the pope’s jumpsuit: can Maestro reveal the real Bernstein?

Bradley Cooper has audiences in raptures as electrifying conductor Leonard Bernstein in a new authorised biopic. Musicians from the London Symphony Orchestra remember playing for the great man – and rate the man who now plays him

The Guardian - UK

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The Brand Impact Award judging panel revealed

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Creative Bloq

The ingenious LSO logo still has people talking

Can you see the conductor?

Creative Bloq

Devonté Hynes review – alt-rocker makes an exhilarating classical debut

Performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, Hynes’ new compositions had a gravitas absent from his pop music – and plenty of discordant energy

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Hannigan review – every note spoke volumes in uncompromising programme about grief

From the desperate sadness of Vivier’s Lonely Child to Berg’s Violin Concerto in memory of Manon Gropius, Barbara Hannigan brought fragility and fire to this London Symphony Orchestra programme

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Pappano review – a serving of big-boned late-romantic symphonism

Barbican, London Pappano leads the LSO with terrifying finesse for Coleridge-Taylor, Strauss and Liszt works, in anticipation of his new role as chief conductor in 2024

The Guardian - UK

The best new music to look forward to in 2023

Yo La Tengo, Billy Nomates, Låpsley and Paramore have hotly anticipated albums due out – while the BBCSO puts on an Everest opera and Simon Rattle waves goodbye to the Barbican

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Jessica Hynes’s cultural highlights

The actor and director on what the Romans have done for her, a beguiling staging of a Japanese animation and a peerless podcast

The Guardian - UK

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The Guardian - UK

Alastair Putt obituary

Other lives: Composer, singer and guitarist whose works were performed widely, including at the BBC Proms

The Guardian - UK

A church with open doors: the ecstatic power of Pharoah Sanders

The spiritual jazz legend was a man of few words – but his expansive, effusive playing said everything

Evening Standard

The songs chosen by orchestras and choirs around the country as tributes to the Queen

The works of English composers were tribute favourites

The Independent UK

London Symphony Orchestra perform national anthem in tribute to the Queen

The Queen had been a patron of the orchestra since her accession to the throne in 1952.

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Wales Online

Win a London hotel break with VIP tickets to see Star Wars: Return of the Jedi at the Royal Albert Hall

One lucky winner will receive a pair of tickets to see John Williams' iconic score performed live by the London Symphony Orchestra, along with an overnight hotel stay provided by Buyagift

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Rattle review – transatlantic glitz and lithe elegance

Simon Rattle once again showed his affinity with Haydn before a distinct second half featuring a London premiere of John Adams and extrovert Gershwin works

The Guardian - UK

Your guide to the best summer culture

Adele comes home, Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis goes for broke, the Edinburgh fringe fires on all cylinders, and HBO and Amazon prepare for a fantasy face-off

Los Angeles Times

Here’s the complete list of 2022 Grammy Award winners

The winners for the 64th Grammy Awards are in and, with a diverse group of nominees, the Recording Academy honored artists ranging from 95-year-old Tony Bennett to 19-year-old Olivia Rodrigo (both of whom won multiple awards) in Las Vegas.

Los Angeles Times

Here’s the complete list of 2022 Grammy Award winners

The predictions for the 64th Grammy Awards are in and, with a diverse group of nominees, the Recording Academy will honor artists ranging from 95-year-old Tony Bennett to 19-year-old Olivia Rodrigo (both of which have won awards in the Premiere Ceremony) today in Las Vegas.

The Independent UK

London Symphony, Simon Rattle work with California students

Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra are on a California tour working with music students at Santa Barbara’s Music Academy of the West

Bristol Post

Bristol Beacon joins forces with London Symphony Orchestra for live broadcast to care homes across the UK

The broadcast aims to inspire joy amongst care home residents

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