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1. 11. BBC Philharmonic @ Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 03 March 2003 TODAY'S concert audience is not deprived of new music and, on the whole, does not shy away from it.

2. 12. Halle @ Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 17 January 2003 YOU can't say Mark Elder hasn't brought fun into the Halle Thursday concerts, after a programme like last night's (the Rabbi Felix Carlebach concert).

3. 13. BBC Philharmonic @ Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 13 January 2003 THE concerts conducted by Gianandrea Noseda at the Bridgewater Hall in his first season could well be devoted to demonstrating the range of different music to which he can turn his hand.

4. 14. Petersen Quartet @ RNCM

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 21 January 2003 BERLIN'S Petersen Quartet play new music on old instruments (three of them are 18th century), and the varnished tone they produce made Krenek's string quartet no.1, the main course they offered Manchester Chamber Concerts Society, all the more attractive.

5. 15. Opera North @ The Lowry

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 07 February 2003 THIS is the opera that the emperor Leopold II liked so much that at its first performance he ordered the whole thing to be done again - there and then. Being a decent chap, he bought dinner for everyone in between shows.

6. 16. Halle @ Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 17 February 2003 IN films, evil nutters always play the organ. Dr Phibes' tune was The War March Of The Priests, I think, and Captain Nemo (like Carlo Curley) was a fan of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor.

7. 17. Walton Comes Home festival @ Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 30 September 2002 THE "Walton Comes Home" festival could not have had a better launch in Manchester than that provided by Yan Pascal Tortelier and the BBC Philharmonic on Saturday.

8. 18. Manchester Camerata @ Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 21 October 2002 THE Camerata reaches its 30th anniversary season with high hopes - but only just surviving, financially. One thing it will need to do this season and next is to regain the kind of following that it enjoyed in its best years in the past.

9. 19. Halle @ Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 31 January 2003 SPRING was hardly the uppermost thought in most minds last night (Thursday, January 30), but maybe a good bit of human sacrifice would have brought the colour back to our cheeks.

10. 20. London Sinfonietta @ RNCM

    Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 05 February 2003 A GRAND piano had to die for the creation of the first piece in the "See The Music'' programme performed in the Royal Northern College of Music opera theatre (on an Arts Council sponsored tour).

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