• Title
  Item 14: Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Town Hall, for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1950 / photographer Max Dupain
• Call number
  PXD 720/14
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1997 photoprint from original photonegative made 1950
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  153596
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 photographic print - gelatin silver - image 40.5 x 50.5 cm., on mount 52 x 65.5 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  In 1946, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra was established as a full time entity, with [Sir] Eugene Goossens being appointed as the first permanent conductor. He suggested " ... a musical centre housing a big hall for a symphony orchestra, a small hall for chamber music and a fine home for an opera company ..." be established, which was realised in the opening of the Sydney Opera House in 1973 -- Exhibition caption, 1997
  Digital order no:pxd72014
• Name
  Sydney Symphony Orchestra
  
• Subject
  Sydney Town Hall (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Conductors (Music).
  Goossens, Eugene, Sir, 1893-1962
  
• Topic
  interiors
  orchestras
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The studio of Max Dupain : post-war photographs - State Library of New South Wales (12 August - 7 December, 1997)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1105432

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