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A national orchestra: first performance, 1947

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A national orchestra: first performance, 1947

The National Orchestra gave its first performance at the Town Hall in Wellington on 6 March 1947. The programme, shown here, included a variety of mostly 19th-century works.

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Peter Walls, Orchestras – The National Orchestra, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/44509/a-national-orchestra-first-performance-1947 (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Peter Walls, published 14 March 2014.