BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra

Located in Manchester, England, the BBC Northern Symphony is one of the earlier names of the BBC Philharmonic, one of the major orchestras of Europe. Manchester is a major inland city in the north-central part of England. It was a small town of little importance until the Industrial Revolution, which, spurred by the growth of the textile industry around 1800, took hold there as early as any place else in the world and brought it to importance. It was also a center of Jacobite resistance in the eighteenth century and it is widely thought that the first public concerts (dating ...