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Czechs crack on with new concert hall

Czechs crack on with new concert hall

They broke ground today on the new concert hall in Ostrava.

The eastern town, where Leos Janacek died, has a Philharmonic orchestra and a May festival named after him.

‘A faraway country of which we know little,’ as an unlamented British PM once said.

The architect is the New Yorker, Steve Holl.

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