This Is The Place For A Recital Hall

IT HAS taken many years, but at last Melbourne is to have its own purpose-built recital hall: a home for the sort of music and musicians who have had to make do with venues either too big or inappropriate for smaller-scale performances. With this week's launch of the Melbourne Recital Centre, due to open in late 2008, the missing link in this city's cultural life is to be forged. The site on the corner of Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street will become a complex shared with the Melbourne Theatre ...