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1. 51. Tsunami appeal nights: Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 13 January 2005 WHILE the clubbing, comedy and rock music world have been busy rallying around to raise money for the tsunami appeal, Manchester's two great symphony orchestras have been concoting a special fundraising night of their own too.

2. 52. Damien Rice @ M.E.N. Arena

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 12 October 2007 FOUR years is a long time in the music world – just ask a Damien Rice fan. It was that long, after all, that the Dublin-born singer-songwriter took to release 9, the follow-up to his million-selling debut O.

3. 53. Iain Archer - Flood the Tanks (Bright Star)

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 19 May 2004 Not, as you might think, a tribute album to the great lamented Scottish football journalist, but instead the first album from the latest entrant to the celtic new world order of music.

4. 54. Halle / Swensen / Lewis @ Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 05 March 2004 LAST night's concert was an illuminating one - mainly because it gave us a chance to hear Aaron Copland's third symphony, written in that fascinating period following the Second World War, when classical music briefly resumed its 19th century role of expressing uplift and collective aspiration.

5. 55. Paul Hartnoll @ Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 01 August 2007 THE legacy of Paul and Phil Hartnoll's previous act, Orbital lives in the hearts and minds of electronic music fans the world over. Their stand out performances at the prestigious Glastonbury festival over the last 15 years has become the stuff of legends.

6. 56. 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.

7. 57. Athlete -Vehicles And Animals (Parlophone)

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 11 April 2003 FROM the Kinks through to Blur's Parklife, one of the gifts Britain has given the world is perky, intelligent pop music.

8. 58. Hallé Orchestra @ Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 09 May 2007 A MAJOR milestone in the Halle’s contribution to today’s music came with the world premieres of the last five Debussy Preludes, in their orchestrations by Colin Matthews, along with Matthews’ own Postlude to the series (subtitled “M. Croche”) on Sunday night, with Mark Elder at the helm.

9. 59. Haven sent

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 02 July 2003 IT'S& a rule of thumb that civic pride – none more so than in Manchester – can only get you so far in the music world.

10. 60. Fancy a Danish?

    Manchester Evening News, Thursday 26 February 2004 In the music world, a Scandinavian band hitting the big time in blighty is comparable to a British group finally cracking the States.&  One of the latest to attempt this feat are Danish rockers, Kashmir.

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