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    Fulfilling a vision

    Mar 27, 2022 1 minute
    by ELIZABETH KERR

    n March 6, 1947, 65 musicians, professional and amateur, performed for the first time as the National Orchestra of the New Zealand Broadcasting Service under the baton of conductor Andersen Tyrer. “The walls of the. The audience was ecstatic, there was a live radio broadcast and the new orchestra took its programme to Christchurch, Dunedin and Auckland a few weeks later.

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