Programme
The Hallé, John Wilson
Free Trade Hall, Northern School Of Music (NSM)
1967

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.”

Ref: NSM/20

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