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Warwick Braithwaite

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Warwick Braithwaite

Conductor Warwick Braithwaite is pictured around 1944, when he was conductor of the Scottish Orchestra. Prior to his appointment to this position in 1940, he had spent a decade conducting productions for the Sadler's Wells Opera Company in London.

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National Portrait Gallery, London

Reference: NPG x21194

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Peter Walls, Classical musicians – Instrumentalists and conductors, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/45483/warwick-braithwaite (accessed 23 June 2026).

Story by Peter Walls, published 3 June 2014.