QUICK TAKES - March 12, 2009

London’s Barbican Centre, the largest performing arts center in Europe, has reached agreements with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and four other foreign musical organizations to become its “international associates” -- groups that will have ongoing relationships with the center and that will eventually be in residence there for a time.

The others are the Manhattan-based New York Philharmonic and Jazz at Lincoln Center, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra from Germany.

Plans call for the Phil to first appear at the Barbican during the 2010-11 season and to take up residence there in the 2012-13 season.