BBC - Inside Classical BBC Singers Centenary Concert (2025)
BBC - Inside Classical BBC Singers Centenary Concert (2025) 
Presenters Clive Myrie and Georgia Mann help the BBC Singers celebrate their one hundredth birthday with a spectacular choral party at London's Barbican Hall.
Formed in October 1924, and known then as the BBC Wireless Chorus, they were the world's first full-time radio choir. Since then, the BBC Singers have become trailblazers in choral music. They regularly champion new music and can seamlessly move from traditional choral repertoire to the most experimental of sounds.
The BBC Singers' birthday bash features something for everyone - music from Bach to Bernstein and Eric Whitacre to Hans Zimmer. Joining this much-loved and pioneering group of singers are their closest musical friends, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and some very special guests. Organist Anna Lapwood brings her arrangement of a Hans Zimmer soundtrack, there's a whistlestop tour of musicals created for them by arranger-extraordinaire Iain Farrington, and there's a stunning performance by South African cellist and composer Abel Selaocoe.
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Snippet from Wikipedia: Barbican Centre
The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London, England, and the largest of its kind in Europe. The centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions. It also houses a library, three restaurants, and a conservatory. The Barbican Centre is a member of the Global Cultural Districts Network.
The London Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra are based in the centre's Concert Hall. In 2013, it once again became the London-based venue of the Royal Shakespeare Company following the company's departure in 2001.
The Barbican Centre is owned, funded, and managed by the City of London Corporation. It was built as the City's gift to the nation at a cost of UK£161 million (equivalent to £718 million in 2023), and was officially opened to the public by Queen Elizabeth II on 3 March 1982. Together with the Southbank Centre, a similar arts centre, the Barbican Centre is also known for its brutalist architecture.
Performance halls and facilities
- Barbican Hall: capacity 1,943; home of the London Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
- Barbican Theatre: capacity 1,156; designed exclusively by and for the Royal Shakespeare Company
- The Pit: flexible 200-seat theatre venue
- Barbican Art Gallery and the free new-commission gallery The Curve
- Barbican Film: 3 cinema screens with seating capacities of 288, 156 and 156
- Barbican Library: Public lending library with special collections in arts and music
- Restaurants: 3
- Conference halls: 7
- Trade exhibition halls: 2
- Informal performance spaces
The second-floor library is one of the five City of London libraries.
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