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Northern School Of Music (NSM), Houldsworth Hall
1961

Official Magazine of the Northern School of Music, covering the academic year 1960-61.

Being the 40th anniversary of the school, the editorial provides a touching memory of the Thanksgiving service at St Anne’s Church where a cross section of original and present students provided physical evidence of the longevity of the Principal’s work. Local Authorities start organising for creation of RNCM, with added reassurance of Ida Carroll that ‘the results of the past 40 years will not be in vain’. Her tone suggests her dedication to the preservation the NSM and its heritage.

Adelaide Trainor writes with a reflective mind on the Speech and Drama department of the school. From the lack of students due to wartime service to music students taking the subject as a specialism, we see the natural growth of this department to a popular full-time course. Although Trainor highlights the lacking reputation of the subject within a music school, she gracefully details the rewarding aspects of her role teaching it: “Many people come to study some particular aspect of it and go their own way, their lives enriched by an added knowledge of the beauty of our language and literature and a deeper understanding of human nature through a study of human behaviour”

Pages 18 – 29 are censored to protect personal data.

Ref: NSM/21

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