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London's stages and concert rooms: the West End houses and the playhouses that make their own shows, the grand halls, the churches with a musical life, the jazz basements, the comedy clubs, the clubs proper, and the rooms above pubs where things start. What is on is listed under each venue, and in What's On.
What is on at them this week is in What's On: Performance
The Southbank's middle-sized hall, where the early music and the odder programming go.
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Nine hundred seats, opened in 1967, and the room that takes what will not fill the Festival Hall next door: harpsichordists, period bands, contemporary ensembles, and the After Dark late nights that start at half nine. The Purcell Room, smaller again at three hundred and seventy, is inside the same building and takes the solo recitals.
It is the hardest of the three halls to love from outside - raw concrete, no windows on the river side, walkways over the top - and the skateboarders have had the undercroft since the early seventies, which the Centre eventually accepted rather than fought. The sound inside is dry and close, which suits a lute and punishes a large chorus.
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Data is compiled from public sources including OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL. Hours change often, so check before making a journey.