Letter
The Hallé, Walter Carroll, Ida Carroll, Geoffrey Griffiths, Hilda Collens
Northern School Of Music (NSM)
1950

Griff writes to Ida while she's away. "Your Father was in tremendous form tonight. I didn't think he was putting on an act of bravado, for he looked well, very well indeed."
Regarding the Northern School of Music, "Miss Hetty [Hilda Collens] loomed pretty large until the mid afternoon "and I saw no more of her and actually did a little work."
There seems to be some upset that he updates her on, where Hilda "wrote a polite little note to Leonard Hirsch, and is threatening to write one to Herbert Bardgett but, I think, wants a word with Gertie first." No idea what that's about, something to do with the choir perhaps?
He admits that he "dropped a brick" to Hilda that she sings with the Hallé, thinking Hilda knew but she didn't. Her approval of "a diversity of activity being good for one" must have been a relief then.
The decorators are still at work at the school and the piano has been installed.

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.