David Whelton: London is one of the music capitals of the world. It is also the home of five symphony orchestras and a multitude of smaller ensembles as well. But the great London musical public can never hear these musicians and their orchestras as they really are. Because London lacks a great concert hall to support their music. As chief executive of the Philharmonia Orchestra, I've taken the orchestra to the greatest concert halls in the world. And as we traveled, we realised just how important a great hall is, to be a great orchestra.
In Wimbledon, we plan to design a hall and build a hall that will compare with the greatest spaces, where the great orchestras of the world can play.
Narrator: Wimbledon's acoustics will be engineered by the acclaimed acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota, who works closely with Frank Gehry.
Narrator: Toyota has masterminded the sound of many of the great concert halls of the world, including the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, and Gehry's Disney Hall in Los Angeles. And the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin.
Narrator: Wimbledon's accoustics will be on the best, most experienced hands.
