A defiant performance: the Hallé Orchestra opens its 2019-2020 season
Last week, with the final embers of Summer illuminating the evening sky in Manchester, music...
Read MorePosted by Alfred Searls | Sep 23, 2019 | Duckspeak, Music, Northern Soul writes...
Last week, with the final embers of Summer illuminating the evening sky in Manchester, music...
Read MorePosted by Alfred Searls | May 3, 2019 | Duckspeak, Northern Soul writes...
In Manchester, in the north of England, there is a corner of an English field that is forever...
Read MorePosted by Alfred Searls | Feb 1, 2019 | Music
Last week the Hallé Orchestra took its audience on an heroic expedition, one that began in the...
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When does Christmas begin? On the surface this would seem an innocent enough question. But dig a...
Read MorePosted by Alfred Searls | Oct 19, 2018 | Art, Arts
George Orwell had relatively little comment on the subject of the visual arts save to say that he...
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