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NZ History Sound

Happy 70th NZSO

March 7, 2017March 7, 2017 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 2000s, music, Radio New Zealand, RNZ Concert, The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Wellington

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra turns 70 this week, marking the anniversary of its first public performance in the Wellington

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Audio Curios: The Horses Stayed Behind

July 20, 2016July 27, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1910s, 2010s, Audio Curios, Cat Auburn, Dunedin, Gareth Watkins, Henry C. Gore, horses, Percy Lowndes, pets, Radio New Zealand, RNZ Concert, Sarah McClintock, Upbeat, Whanganui, World War I, World War One, WWI

– By Gareth Watkins (Radio Collection Developer, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Recently Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision has

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Audio Curios: George Bissett’s Bugle

April 20, 2016April 20, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1910s, Audio Curios, Gallipoli, Gareth Watkins, George Bissett, Radio New Zealand, RNZ Concert, WW1, WWI

Producer Shelley Wilkinson visits the National Army Museum Te Mata Toa to learn about the shrapnel-torn bugle of twenty-year-old bugler

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Audio Curios: The Last Post

March 16, 2016March 21, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 2010s, Audio Curios, Gareth Watkins, music, Radio New Zealand, Radio New Zealand National, RNZ Concert, World War II, World War Two, WW1, WWI, WWII

Bugler Trevor Bremner and producer Shelley Wilkinson discuss the various bugle calls that make up the “Last Post” (“Bugle Stories,” RNZ

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Audio Curios: Music in Braille

December 9, 2015 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 2010s, Audio Curios, braille, Gareth Watkins, Lisette Wesseling, music, Radio New Zealand, RNZ Concert

In 1824 Louis Braille thought up a six-dot system to enable blind people to read and write. But, as Lisette

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