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New Symphony Orchestra

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ131345134 ↗
Source-derived summary

New Symphony Orchestra may refer to

New Symphony Orchestra (London) – British ensemble founded in 1905 and later called the Royal Albert Hall Orchestra

New Symphony Orchestra (Sofia) – Bulgarian ensemble founded in 1991

NHK Symphony Orchestra – Japanese ensemble founded in 1926 as the New Symphony Orchestra and renamed in 1951

An ad hoc recording ensemble also called the New Symphony Orchestra (sometimes the New Symphony Orchestra of London) which played on more than 150 Decca studio recordings between 1948 and 1964.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “New Symphony Orchestra” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1905, 1991, 1926, 1951—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Symphony, Orchestra and Wikimedia can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q131345134. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1905, 1991, 1926 and 1951.

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This entry incorporates text from “New Symphony Orchestra” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.