World-class concert hall to be built in Oxford | Music - Cherwell Online

Ellen Hendry, Author at Cherwell inform, Though Oxford may have a world-leading university, it is yet to have a world-leading concert hall. 

World-class concert hall to be built in Oxford
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In a bid to change this, the university has chosen acoustic consultant Ian Knowles to design a world-class multi-space performance hall. It will feature a 500-seat concert hall, a 250-seat performance space, and a 100-seat ‘Black Box’ lab for experimental performance...

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Source: Cherwell Online