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1. 1. 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.

2. 2. Amplifier - Neon (Music For Nations)

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 08 March 2004 THE& question facing the post-Darkness world has to be: can rock still be taken seriously? The unfortunate thing is that Amplifier make it easy to answer no.

3. 3. Madrugada - Grit (Music For Nations)

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 15 March 2004 NORWAY’s most successful musical export to date - mid-eighties pop icons A-Ha& -& or the more current Kings of Convenience don't provide much of a starting point for Madrugada. Think instead of Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and The Jesus and Mary Chain.

4. 4. David Byrne - Grown Backwards (Nonesuch)

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 24 March 2004 IT’s been a long time since David Byrne slipped into the relatively straightforward white funk experiments that went with that famous oversized Talking Heads suit of his.

5. 5. Chord blimey

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 26 March 2004 HARPSICHORDS have an image problem - but wipe those mental pictures of powdered wigs and genteel baroque tea parties, the harpsichord has entered the techno age.

6. 6. Gee whizz!

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 09 March 2004 POP Idol is a cultural phenomenon. The& talent show has launched the careers of a succession of wannabes,& including Kim Gee, the self-confessed big girl with a big voice, who was one of the stars of the last series. <EM>Listen to our interview with Kim.</EM>

7. 7. Life after Bryan for Westlife

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 26 March 2004 "PROVING to the audience that we're well capable as a four is the most important thing to us right now," says Kian

8. 8. Radio a turn-on for Terry

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 01 March 2004 FEW things have been more synonymous with late night television over the last 15 years than Terry Christian's deadpan Manchester accent. But his real passion is for music, specifically from Manchester.

9. 9. Dr Waterman is lucky, lucky, lucky

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 05 March 2004 POP& impresario Pete Waterman, who lives in Lymm, Cheshire, said he was totally "overcome" after being awarded an honorary doctorate in music.

10. 10. RNCM Wind Orchestra - Russian Wind Band Classics (Chandos)

    Manchester Evening News, Friday 12 March 2004 THE Royal Northern College's wind players have appeared at the Proms in London and made a series of CDs for Chandos before now, so this volume, with RNCM director of contemporary music Clark Rundell now firmly in the saddle& is maintaining a distinctive tradition.

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