Avril Foster of the Northern School of Music is off to a job in Belfast.

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Leon Goossens performs at Marple Hall Grammar School for Boys, accompanied by John Wilson.

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The RNCM cost a lot more than anticipated, and way more than this shocking increase from just under £260k to just under £670k.

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Pauline Tinsley smashing it in London.

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A piano recital at the Northern School of Music with Christopher Robins, John Law, Helen Collier, James Corbett, Avril Foster and John Wilson.

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A review of the Northern School of Music's concert, featuring Roy Walmsley, John Wilson, Elizabeth Hawes, Susan Badenhorst and Maurice Clare.

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Another review of the Northern School of Music's Drama Department, at Renold Theatre.

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A rare review for the Northern School of Music's Drama Department.

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The Northern School of Music stages a recital with Maurice Clare and John Wilson.

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Suzanne Adams and Ian Comboy of the Northern School of Music, alongside Lorna Brindley, singing at the Royal Manchester College of Music.

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The Northern School of Music staged a concert at Houldsworth Hall. Names featured are James Foster, Judith Gray, Richard Sowerby, Ian Comboy, Valerie Whalley, Charlotte Henderson, Suzanne Adams, Christopher Clift, Barbara Eyre, Randolph Colville, Jean Marsden, Avril Foster, David Garbutt and Delcie Tetsill.

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The ICI Orchestral and Choral Society (anyone know what this is exactly?) conducted by David Ellis featuring Northern School of Music performers Alison Hargan, George Ward and Leslie Auger.

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Northern School of Music junior David Dubery performs his own composition, pictured with Hepzibah Crane.

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The Northern School of Music and the Royal Manchester College of Music both perform orchestral concerts conducted by Hallé conductors. The NSM is led by Maurice Handforth and the RMCM by John Barbirolli.

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A review of Northern School of Music concert at with special mention to George Fisher and Leslie Auger.

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The Northern School of Music smashing out another oratorio conduced by Maurice Handford, with special mention of Leslie Auger.

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A few students possibly of the Northern School of Music playing at with the Bolton Youth Orchestra with Frank Milner conducting, featuring Keith Dawber, Paul Aldred and Clive Brown.

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A tricky budget to manage, we've gone from the RNCM costing just over a quarter of a million quid in the late 1950s to costing £758,636 in the mid 1960s.

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Praise for the Hallé and the BBC Northern Orchestra performing Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, with Alvar Lidell, Janet Baker, Sylvia Fisher, John Lanigan, Kenneth Neate, Forbes Robinson, and the Nelson Arion Male Voice Choir all conducted by George Hurst.
Tucked away is a notice of a recital by Maurice Clare and John Wilson at the Northern School of Music.

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A clunky delivery of Handel's Messiah is saved by Pauline Tinsley. Also mentioned are Margaret Duckworth, Benjamin Luxon, John Mitchinson and Grayson Burgess.

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A double whammy for John Wilson as he accompanies two concerts on seemingly the same day! Firstly with Roy Walmsley, performing alongside Elizabeth Hawes and Susan Badenhorst. Then with Maurice Clare at the Northern School of Music.

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Nestled in with chaps like Peter Maxwell-Davies is the Northern School of Music hosting the Amici Quartet. Also featured is Brian Runnett at the Whitworth Hall and Allan Schiller at Stamford Hall hosted by the Altrincham Concert Society.

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Well you can't please them all. Two opposing reviews for the same concert, featuring Jean Marsden, Duncan Taylor, Gillian Holme, Laurence Wood and John Williams.

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A little star studded review around the BBC, including Paul Buxton.

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