The Northern School of Music gives a recital at Houldsworth Hall.

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The Northern School of Music give a recital at Castleton with special mention to performers Frank Houldsworth and Anne Richardson.

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The Northern School of Music stages a performance specifically for a blind audience. Seems to have been a success!

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Charles Groves conducts the Northern School of Music's performance of Messiah. Special mention to the efforts of students Pamela Rhodes and Patricia Wallace.

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The Northern School of Music loved an oratorio, and Mendelssohn's "Elijah" was their performance for 1956.

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Friend of the Northern School of Music gives its students a recital in its rehearsal studio.

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Geoffrey Griffiths was celebrated at the Midland Hotel for his 25 years of service to the Northern School of Music as their bursar. "I have to fit 28 lectures into 26 studios and a stationary cupboard." Sounds about right.

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The Northern School of Music's final opera "Der Freischutz", before it closed to make way for the RNCM, featured James Kershaw, Diane Marshall, Glynis Prendergast.

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A review of an opera starring Northern School of Music superstar Pauline Tinsley.

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A busy concert at the Lesser Free Trade Hall, after the critic mistakenly attends the Houldsworth Hall instead, featuring Elizabeth Godlee, David Newbold, Jeanette Goddard, Martin Milligan ad Richard Walsh from the Northern School of Music.

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High praise for the Northern School of Music Christmas concert, with Barbara Finch, Frank Houldsworth, Peter Rose, Leonard Latchford, Roy Gerrard.

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Praise for musical school children at the Free Trade Hall, with gratitude to the influence of Walter Carroll. Musicians mentioned are George Fisher, Albert Knowles, Fred Lord, Alan Fletcher, Nancy Wright, Horace Whalley, Maurice Miller, Herbert Riley, Gertrude Riall, with C.S. Grundy conducting.

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The Northern School of Music students find practice spaces of their own at a nearby park, including June Fardell, Lesley Wood and Geoffrey Wild.

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Alfreda Hodgson and the coveted Kathleen Ferrier Prize, with a shout out to her studies at the Northern School of Music.

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An evening of Shakespeare from the Northern School of Music at the Lesser Free Trade Hall. Students mentioned include Una Fyfe, Peter Walker, Alison Hargan, Beryl Cook. Adelaide Trainor helped direct some prose with students including Linda Gill, Joan Cunliffe, Alice Halliwell, Geoffrey Hayes, Stephen Parkins, David Elliot, Brenda Hodgkinson and Joan Waywell.

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The Northern School of Music stage "The Merry Wives of Windsor" opera at the Lesser Free Trade Hall. Produced by Sumner Austin and conducted by Aylmer Buesst, it starred Norma Day, June Glynne Jones, John Hughes, Albert Haskayne and Harold Townson.

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The Northern School of Music students perform at Houldsworth Hall, featuring Stephen Denisnon, Roy Gerrard. Jean Soni, Dorothea Taylor, John O'Sullivan, Mary Gilmartin and Elizabeth Knight.

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Northern School of Music students perform for the Accington Arts Club, including Norma Day, Anne Richardson, Dorothea Taylor and Irene Yates.

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A recital at the Tudor Galleries with Audrey Ifor Davies and Frank Duffy.

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In a Mozart special for the Manchester Middy Concerts, Pauline Tinsley wows at the Albert Hall. Also mentioned are Beryl Dallen and Joseph Weingarten.

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A sweet review of the Northern School of Music's production of Mignon at the Lesser Free Trade Hall. Conducted by Aylmer Buesst and produced by Sumner Austin, starring Norma Day, June Glynne Jones, James Hyde, John Shaw, Carl Abrahamson and Sylvia Peters.

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Not sure why there is a picture of Delcie Tetsill in this clipping but very much glad that there is.

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Wigan Music Society enjoy a performance from Alfreda Hodgson, Neville Duckworth and John Wilson.

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The Northern School of Music stage "The Magic Flute" on the tiny space that was the Lesser Free Trade Hall. Conducted by Aylmer Buesst and produced by Sumner Austin, starring Stephen Taylor, Brian Fish, Ian Diggle, Kay Fletcher and Tessa Hultgren.

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