National Orchestra to WMC Comment

3.54.06pm UTC (GMT +0000) Tue 30th Jan 2007

In the New Year work will start on moving the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales from Llandaff to the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay.

Jenny Randerson AM, Culture Minister at the time the decision was taken to build the WMC, said "This has been planned from before the opening of the WMC so it's good to see the project in the finishing straight.

"If the Wales Millennium Centre is not the best concentration of Arts and Culture in the world, it soon will be!"

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