Inviting anyone to compete for the Walter Carroll Open Scholarship. The scholarship was open to anyone who wanted to study at the Northern School of Music.

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Another school mash up featuring "creative dance, dance drama, choral verse". I would have loved to see the dance-version of Dante. It had better have been weird af.

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Another day out at Salford for the orchestra of the NSM. There are really detailed programme notes (descriptions and explanations of the music to be performed) but no author of them. Creating programme notes is a particular skill and they are usually credited. Could it have been the conductor, maybe the principal, a staff member?

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A play, a quartet, choral and orchestral concerts, and an opera all coming up for the Northern School of Music's forthcoming concerts.

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Most important note: coffee will be served in the canteen during the interval. Important for a wintery night performance in the famously chilly Northern School of Music.

This is from the Speech and Drama school of the NSM. The House of Bernarda Alba is a play by Frederico García Lorca. It's about women in a Spanish village, with themes of oppression, conformity, repression and sexuality, the effect of men on women. Lorca was supposedly murdered by nationalists in Spanish Civil War.

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A Northern School of Music recital with a chunk of NSM student listed. The typeface makes it looks older but the students are all the 1965 bunch.

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Not sure why this has a line through it. Maybe to ensure it doesn't go into circulation but goes straight to file. Or perhaps it was cancelled? I can't find a review for it being performed so perhaps.

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A piano recital by Northern School of Music students.

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A recital by a handful of Northern School of Music soloists.

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The Northern School of Music's staging of "The First Born" by Christopher Fry seems to have been popular and has made its way to Bowdon.

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A favourite kind of concert from the Northern School of Music: the choral and orchestral concert. Someone had a thing for Holst that year.

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Coming events by the Northern School of Music's students, including an opera and the summer course in music held by the school every year since 1920.

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A short programme advertising the Northern School of Music students' performance of Don Giovanni for the Wilmslow Symphony Orchestra audience.

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A recital of the Northern School of Music students with Ian Comboy, Neville Duckworth and John Wilson.

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It's not the Messiah! (It's a very naughty boy. Sorry, couldn't help it.)
A different oratorio for the Northern School of Music's annual choral/orchestral belter. This time Elgar's The Kingdom.
This draft has a little bit of editing in it which is always nice to see.

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A piano recital by the Northern School of Music students with two interesting pieces programmed. Tobias Matthay was the namesake of the school's early years, the Matthay School of Music (Manchester Branch). Alan Rawsthorne again pops up as a seeming favourite of student Graham Jackson. Rawsthorne was a composition students at the Royal Manchester College of Music just up the road from the NSM a few decades before.

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A chunky concert full of Junior School performers from the Northern School of Music. Do you remember the Northern School of Music?

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The Easter concert for 1965 is as busy as usual for the Northern School of Music. It also advertises a solo performance in St Ann's Church by Ian Comboy, bass singer student at the NSM.

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The Manchester Cathedral Arts Festival programme for the Northern School of Music's staging of "The First Born" by Christopher Fry. Much of the drama school was, as was typical for the NSM, led by a woman namely Adelaide Trainor. She also directed many of their productions.

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An invitation for anyone to compete for the Northern School of Music's scholarships. These bursaries were vital in providing the means for many students over the decades to access musical training.

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A programme for the Manchester Cathedral Arts Festival with a mention of the Northern School of Music's staging of Christopher Fry's "The First Born".

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The Northern School of Music on the way to Salford again for an orchestral concert. Lots of alumni remember conductor Maurice Handford and his ability to verbally rip you a new one.

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A practice concert by the Northern School of Music students. These were used to practice examination pieces in public, or simply to gain public performance experience for the students.
A contemporary local composer has even been chosen, Alan Rawsthorne, who was still knocking about at the time having been trained in composition at the Royal Manchester College of Music down the road.

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A heads up about concerts forthcoming from the Northern School of Music in 1965. It's looking to be a packed year. 2 operas, drama, orchestra, recital, choral works, all sorts awaited audiences in 1965.

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