Events In History
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6 March 1947Debut performance of NZ Symphony OrchestraThe success of the Centennial Festival Orchestra in 1940 encouraged the government to form a permanent National Orchestra, but the Second World War delayed its establishment until 1946. Read more...
Biographies
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Aspey, Vincent
When nine-year-old Vincent Aspey persuaded his mother to buy a violin he had spotted in a second-hand shop she was dubious that he would practice, let alone come to be described as ‘synonymous with orchestral development in New Zealand’.
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Main image: Vincent Aspey
National Orchestra leader Vincent Aspey playing the violin in the Wellington Town Hall in 1955
