Letter
Ida Carroll, Geoffrey Griffiths, St James Church Choir at Birch-in-Rusholme
Northern School Of Music (NSM)
1941

Griff writes to Ida that (for unknown reasons) he'll have to be stuck working for Stanton's travel agency if he wishes to remain a Manchester City fan. *shrugs*
He knows she is working hard at the Matthay School of Music and it sounds like there is a lot of development work going on (possibly in response to the 1940 Blitz or the change to a public company?)
"At Stantons it has been one of my chief winter sports to invent new methods, occasionally of value, mostly utterly confusing to my poor colleagues, but always amusing - to me." Well, that would drive me bonkers.
He recalls seeing Charles Laughton in a play where the organ on stage started to play well before he sat down to it.
He spends some time comparing congregation and choir sizes at Birch church and elsewhere, listing the choirs he would like to see.

Ref: CARROLL/IGC/3 GG
With thanks to the Ida Carroll Trust
Date is unknown.

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