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Sydney Symphony Orchestra 1965

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Sydney Symphony Orchestra 1965

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National Archives of Australia

[A1500, K13241]

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Culture and customs

Sydney's pre-industrial culture was comprehensive and public, and most European inhabitants were players, performers or spectators. After 1850, distinct but overlapping cultures emerged, imported and adapted from Europe and America. New forms of cultural transmission after World War I enabled the elaboration of new cultures based on ethnicity, age and gender, which have combined to produce Sydney's cultural diversity.

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Sydney Symphony Orchestra

The orchestra grew out of the group of musicians assembled to perform incidental music for radio plays and broadcasts of concert repertoire for the newly established Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1932. Its first concert as the Sydney Symphony Orchestra was given in 1946.

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