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1. 1. Shape up on your statues

   CityLife, Wednesday 27 October 2004 THEY are the faces of statesmen and heroes passed by thousands every day. But how many visitors to Manchester would be able to put a name to the men and women immortalised in statues and monuments?

2. 2. Halle Orchestra @ Bridgewater Hall

   CityLife, Thursday 09 October 2008 IT was the kind of evening Sir Mark Elder must have dreamed of. Opening the Halle's 147-year-old Thursday concert series - just eight years since he took our orchestra on - with a massive Mahler symphony employing huge resources... and seeing the Bridgewater Hall completely packed out.

3. 3. Forget Britart - here's brick art!

   CityLife, Tuesday 01 July 2003 LUMINARIES of the modern art world are finding that they have more than one thing in common - inspiration in Lego. Riazat Butt talks to the Little Artists about their work for the Comme Ca Art Prize North.

4. 4. Forget Britart - here's brick art!

   CityLife, Tuesday 01 July 2003 LUMINARIES of the modern art world are finding that they have more than one thing in common - inspiration in Lego. Riazat Butt talks to the Little Artists about their work for the Comme Ca Art Prize North.

5. 5. BBC Philharmonic @ Bridgewater Hall

   CityLife, Monday 29 September 2008 IT sounded 10 times better than in the Royal Albert Hall. Just two weeks ago, Gianandrea Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic, with the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, brought the serious part of the BBC Proms to a close with Beethoven’s ninth symphony.

6. 6. Festive fun to had on classical front

   CityLife, Monday 12 January 2009 MANCHESTER’S orchestras provided bags of seasonal cheer yet again this holiday.

7. 7. Manchester Camerata @ Bridgewater Hall

   CityLife, Monday 29 September 2008 BEETHOVEN from Manchester Camerata is very different from Beethoven played by a big symphony orchestra – but utterly compelling.

8. 8. Halle’s World Aids Day concert @ Bridgewater Hall

   CityLife, Tuesday 02 December 2008 THE Halle’s World Aids Day concert was notable not just as an example of what an arts organization can do when its entire team pulls together in a good cause, but for the world premiere of a new composite work.

9. 9. Hallé Orchestra @ Bridgewater Hall

   CityLife, Friday 24 October 2008 EXPECT the unexpected is a pretty good watchword when Markus Stenz is in charge of a concert, and his first appearance with the Hallé since the announcement that he is to be its next principal guest conductor brought its own surprise.

10. 10. Atos Piano Trio @ RNCM

    CityLife, Tuesday 23 September 2008 STENTORIAN bravos at Manchester’s august Chamber Concerts Society are not all that frequent, but they were in evidence on Tuesday – the first concert of its new season - at the close of the Atos Piano Trio’s performance of Beethoven’s ‘Archduke’ Trio.

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