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Ida Carroll
Royal Northern College Of Music (RNCM), Northern School Of Music (NSM)
2019

Trefor Davies recalls the atmosphere at the Northern School of Music as the Royal Northern College of Music was being designed in the 1960s.

Trefor: Well I had finished at the Northern in ’69, yeah, so I only went back for lessons with Ellis and people like that and I understood that they were having quite a few difficulties, one way or another, and I know that Ida Carroll was in meetings galore, so it must have been quite turbulent at times. I mean, I didn’t get to experience it because, as I say, I wasn’t there then but I do know that there was quite a lot of discussion as to how it was going to take place and who was to be the Principal and all that sort of thing, yeah.

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