Article: Film-maker's final look at old Liverpool; Liverpool director Terence Davies's acclaimed new movie has its world premiere tonight at the Philharmonic Hall. Ben Schofield found him suffering opening night jitters.(Features)

Byline: Ben Schofield

I hope they like it. I hope they don't boo

TERENCE DAVIES underwent his "classical education" at the Philharmonic Hall.

While earning just pounds 5 a week as a trainee accountant he went, alone, to watch and listen to the orchestra. They played, he says, the "vox pops" of the classics - Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, Beethoven's Fifth and Tchaikovsky's Sixth symphonies.

"I went to every concert I could afford," he adds.

But tonight, Kensington-born Davies will make only his second trip to the hall since leaving Liverpool in 1973, when the building will host the world premiere of his new film Of ...

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