Another brass concert by the Northern School of Music. A rarity from the school so I bet the students really valued the dedicated time. Still no female brass players but big up Elizabeth Knowles with the percussion crew! A fair number of contemporary composers too, not just older music arranged for brass which must have been nice.

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A double helping of opera. Both end in the lead woman's death. Sounds delightful.

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A summer concert for Northern School of Music audiences.

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A packed Junior NSM concert in 1968. Do you remember the Junior School of the NSM? They're still supporting the Barnardo's charity.

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A piano and song recital by Delcie Tetsill and Diana Mayne at the NSM. Kenneth Leighton, whose music has been programmed alongside old masters such as Beethoven and Bach, was still very much alive here. A composer from the other side of the Pennines, he had won a chunk of awards and honours by this point.

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Piano recital for the Northern School of Music. That's a lot of piano music!

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Off to Salford for the Northern School of Music's orchestral concert.

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I like the little detail at the back of the programme that the invited alumni for a brew with the students after the performance.

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An Easter concert by the Northern School of Music.

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Christmas! Directed by Irene Wilde, this is another packed programme for the Northern School of Music.

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Waiting In The Wings by Noel Coward, staged by the Northern School of Music. I wonder if Coward ever learned of their production? I can't see any reviews but I bet it was at least funny. It was only released 6 or 7 years before this.

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A concert of piano work by students flexing their solo muscles.

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Idomeneo, an opera by Mozart, staged by the Northern School of Music. I can't find any reviews for the production so far but no doubt they made the best of the limited space on the Lesser Free Trade Hall stage.

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A concert for the summer by the Northern School of Music.

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Another glorious NSM Junior concert. David Dubery again performing his own original work. Pretty cool!

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Honouring the 33rd year of Elgar's death, the Northern School of Music programme "The Apostles". The Free Trade Hall extended its platform for The Apostles. All performers were past/present student/teachers of the school and included “principal flute of the CBSO, several Hallé principals, and many other distinguished musicians.”
It suited conductor Maurice Handford so well “that its character was all too well suitably reproduced, whereas a less convinced conductor might have tried (and some have succeeded) to inject more life into the first part and to discover more variety in expression than we heard.”

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Another effort by the Northern School of Music drama course. I *think* this is an original work, using classical music pieces woven in a plot to create a new whole narrative. It is described by the Guardian advert as “a programme of play extracts and dance drama on the theme of war”, devised and directed by Gerald McNally. I can't see a review of it so sadly we may never know what on earth happened on stage that night. If you remember it please do let me know.

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The Northern School of Music drama students stage Dear Octopus by Dodie Smith, at the Green Room Theatre (Little Peter Street). Dear Octopus is about how 3 generations that can never escape the clutches of its large family. Dorothy "Dodie" Gladys Smith was the author of 101 Dalmatians and was herself local to Manchester.

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The House of Bernarda Alba by Lorca again produced by the Northern School of Music. It's staged alongside Dear Octopus by Dodie Smith, both at the Green Room Theatre (Little Peter Street). Dear Octopus is about how 3 generations that can never escape the clutches of its large family. Dorothy "Dodie" Gladys Smith was the author of 101 Dalmatians and was herself local to Manchester.

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The piano was the founding instrument of the Northern School of Music and the strength in its teaching never waned for over 50 years.

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A heads up from the Northern School of Music's concerts series, including their popular summer course in music.

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All together now, "...a handbag?!"

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The Dark of the Moon play by Howard Richardson and William Berney, directed by Iris Henson for the Northern School of Music. The play was first produced 1945. It was a fantasy drama of forbidden love with violent consequences.

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A summer concert by the Northern School of Music. Four Bagatelles seems a popular one by Rawsthorne. It was written nearly 30 years before this concert but is still considered a new work in comparison to most classical music repertoire performed at the time.

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