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    Vincent Aspey

    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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Debut performance of NZ Symphony Orchestra

1947 Debut performance of NZ Symphony Orchestra

The success of the Centennial Festival Orchestra in 1940 encouraged the government to form a permanent National Orchestra, but the war delayed its establishment until 1946. more...

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31 reasons to love New Zealand musicNew Zealand Symphony OrchestraVincent Aspey Oswald Cheesman

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  • New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (NZSO)
  • Programme for first concert (Timeframes)
  • Creative life: music (Te Ara)
  • Music: general history (1966 encyclopaedia)
  • Vincent Aspey biography (DNZB)
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