How does music communicate across the ages, and what can it teach about fragility, conflict, resistance and peace? In composing Non Fiction, a symphony presented by the 45-member Manchester Collective, conducted by Hugh Tieppo-Brunt with appearances from Jack Wylie and Valentina Magaletti, Hania Rani drew her inspiration from a surprising source: child prodigy Josima Feldschuh, who performed with the Jewish Symphony orchestra at age 11, wrote music of her own in occupied Warsaw, and died at age 13 while her family was hiding from the Nazis. The symphony is haunted by the echoes of old enmities, and speaks to a new generation of conflict in Ukraine and Gaza. Rani’s own performance anchors the set, her piano the central instrument.