Programme
Northern School Of Music (NSM), Houldsworth Hall
1956

Northern School of Music with a huge choral and orchestral work by Mendelssohn Elijah. According to the Guardian review, it was chosen to show what the students could do but was a shame that something “more in touch with present day taste was not chosen for the students to exercise and display their talents in.” Even conservative choral societies didn’t hold it as core repertoire by that point. The choir performed well, however. Groves hadn’t worked with the orchestra long enough to mould the string section appropriately around the soloists.

Ref: NSM/20

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