Music needs a home, not a vanity project | Letters

A new and additional music venue is planned for London (Report, 17 December), possibly at the awkwardly sited London Museum. At the same time the ENO struggles to fill seats and, as Ian Jack reports (5 December), classical lieder are only heard at one or two centres, such as the Wigmore Hall. Classical music simply does not attract large audiences, apart from those for the Proms, which dominates the summer months. Even so, the Barbican and South Bank are not good enough for Simon Rattle, despite