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1. 1. Ilya follows his dreams

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 21 February 2003 VIRTUOSO violinist Ilya Gringolts shows surprising magnanimity towards his first teacher for refusing to teach him, having already decided that he was completely talentless.

2. 2. Back to Bach after TV challenge

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 28 February 2003 DID you hear about the baroque specialist who was asked to teach a pink-haired punk to conduct? No, it is not the start of a bandroom joke, but a bizarre yet real part of the recent life of conductor Nicholas Kraemer.

3. 3. Joshua’s worldwide appeal

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 24 January 2003 HE is blond, he drives a Porsche and he has been voted one of the world's 50 most beautiful people by an American magazine, but violinist Joshua Bell's lifestyle contains a degree of hard graft which blows apart the glamorous image.

4. 4. Screen star’s tribute to Prokofiev

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 31 January 2003 SIR Peter Ustinov admits he has an instinctive sympathy for the composer Prokofiev for having had the misfortune to die on the same day and hour as the Russian dictator Stalin.

5. 5. Power of music ‘can change the way we live’

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 10 January 2003 COMPOSER Robin Walker is a man with fire in his belly and a conviction that music could be used to change the course of history.

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