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Ida Carroll
Northern School Of Music (NSM)
1959

This speech was given by Ida Gertrude Carroll to new and returning staff and students at the start of the school year in September 1959.

Like the majority of her speeches this one begins with a prayer and hymns. In her prayer Ida Gertrude Carroll shows her great appreciation for both music and the Northern College of Music’s Founder Hilda Collens, for example in her prayer she states that “we are met together at this time to offer our thanks for his gifts of music and literature” before she goes on to ask that the school remember Hilda Collens “Who planted in fertile soil the seed of music and dedicated her life’s work to god and the furtherance of her art.”

Following the prayers and hymns Ida Gertrude Carroll gives details on the schools activities, such as the schools sponsoring of a boy from Barnardo’s, and the need to elect a student committee.

However she also makes sure to reassure students that no two people are alike and that each individual must set their own level of achievement, and that no matter what issue they have, big or small, she is always there for them to talk to.

Ref: CARROLL.IGC.9
With thanks to the Ida Carroll Trust.

Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.