The Northern School of Music stage "Martha" conducted by Aylmer Buesst and produced by Sumner Austin, starring Alfreda Hodgson, Tessa Hultgren, Richard Walsh, Stephen Taylor, Ian Diggle.

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A review of the Hallé Christmas concert with the Northern School of Music Chorus.

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The Northern School of Music's Speech and Drama Department and the Manchester Unitarian College produce Clive Sanson's "The Witness", conducted by Ida Carroll and directed by Adelaide Trainor.

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In a joyous Christmas concert, the audience joined in with the music! Featured are Alicia Robinson, Jean Bretherton, Stephen Crabtree, Malcolm Shaw, Ann Brindley, supported by Ernest Ridler and led by Irene Wilde.

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L'Elisir D'Amore staged on the tiny Lesser Free Trade Hall, by the Northern School of Music. Special mention to the cast Stephen Crabtree, Malcolm Shaw, Alicia Robinson and Robert Hull.

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A review of a challenging recital by the Northern School of Music.

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Some feedback from the Northern School of Music's production of Mignon. Feedback from Aylmer Buesst, Sumner Austin, Ellis Keeler, Clara Johnson, Betty Bannerman with special mention to Irene Wilde and Albert Haskayne.

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

This Northern School of Music's summer school features Stephen Waters on the clarinettist and Kendall Taylor the pianist, accompanied by John Wilson.

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Ida Carroll with a snide comment on this article about the hopefully imminent building of the RNCM.

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The Northern School of Music students perform a couple of recitals courtesy of students Diana Mayne and Delcie Tetsill, accompanied by John Wilson.

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The Northern School of Music show off their promising pupils in a school concert at Houldsworth Hall. Of special mention are Hilary Tadman, Brent Lord, Gordon Gange, Andrew White, Geoffrey Hardisty, Keith Dawber, David Openshaw and John Firth.

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There's a plea to start building the RNCM in 1969, for about £888k, so that it can get started.

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Northern School of Music stages the Vaughan Williams' "Hugh The Drover" at the Lesser Free Trade Hall. Starring Trevor Davies, Delcie Tetsill, Ray Clarke, Hilary Moss and Michael Scott, conducted by Maurice Handford and produced by Sumner Austin.

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A special concert at Winsford Civic Hall, featuring students of the Northern School of Music Jean Hubbard and Daphne Jones.

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

In September 1979, audiences for the RNCM supported our students by attending the concert in aid of the Student Travel Scholarship Fund.

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One of our many Lunchtime Recitals, this time at St Ann's Church in October 1991.

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I love our free concerts. We've been doing free open practices and student recitals for over a century since the Royal Manchester College of Music opened in 1893. Check out our regular free lunchtime concerts and get to know our music and people.

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2012 at the RNCM was all about Beethoven, including this concert in November.

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Who remembers the epic Henze Festival at the RNCM in November 1998?

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It's November 1973 and the RNCM has just turned 1 year old in September. Time to celebrate with a double bill opera! Purgatory and The Bear. Anyone remember these early days performances?

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In May 2019 the RNCM Young Company staged the hit musical Sweet Charity.

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Who has been enjoying our concerts at St. Ann's Church? Did you know they started with one of the RNCM's predecessors, the Northern School of Music?

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May 1977 at the RNCM was a guitar recital. About 85 years earlier, the founder of the Royal Manchester College of Music Charles Hallé said of the guitar: "the less that instrument is cultivated, the better". Luckily, we know better now!

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Who remembers this lush production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream in March 2015. It was the first opera I ever went to and I was absolutely enthralled by the set, lights, sounds and movement. Which has been your favourite RNCM opera?

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