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HURC-HURD-57* UN 13153 · Document · 1957.12.10
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Dr. Max Habicht (left), member of the International Law Association, and M.F. Cottier, Mayor of Geneva and President of the Administrative Council, in front of Human Rights Day exhibit set up by the World Brotherhood and the Department of Education, Geneva.

HURC-HURD-57* UN 56953 · Document · 1957.12.10
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Visitors at a Human Rights Day exhibit in Tong-Hwa Gallery, Seoul City, Korea.
This photograph exhibition on Human Rights, held under the auspices of the Korea University Legal Society, was one of many observances in Korea today of the ninth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

HURC-CRT UN 55913 · Document · 1957.12.10
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Human Rights Day (10 December) was marked by a concert given this evening by the Symphony Orchestra of the Florence Festival (Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino) in the General Assembly Hall at UN Headquarters. Here, Assembly President Sir Leslie Munro (2nd from left) and UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold (2nd from right) pose with the two conductors of the Symphony Orchestra, Messrs Francesco Mander (left) and Franco Mannino, both Italian. Mr Mander conducted three works "Suite for Strings" by Corelli, Cesar Frank's "Symphonic Variations", and a "Partita" by the modern Italian composer Giorgio Frederico Ghedini. Mr Mannino, who was a piano soloist for the Cesar Franck number, conducted the final work of the evening, Mendelssohn's "Italian symphony" (Symphony No 4, in A Major, Op. 90).

HURC-CRT UN 55915 · Document · 1957.12.10
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Sir Leslie Munro (left), President of the UN General Assembly, Lady Munro and UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold exchanging views shortly before this evening's concert in celebration of the ninth anniversary of Human Rights Day (10 December) got under way in the General Assembly Hall.
The concert was given by the Symphony Orchestra of the Florence Festival (Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino) under the direction of Messrs. Francesco Mander and Franco Mannino, both Italian.

HURC-CRT UN 55919 · Document · 1957.12.10
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A concert given this evening in the General Assembly Hall by the Symphony Orchestra of the Florence Festival (Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino) marked the celebration of the ninth anniversary of Human Rights Day (10 December) at UN Headquarters. The concert was broadcast in the United States by the American Broadcasting Company and Station WNYC, televised by Station WOR-TV and broadcast overseas by shortwave.
Here, upon including their rendition of Mendelson's Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 ("Italian"), the members of the orchestra rise to acknowledge the applause of an appreciative audience. It was the final work of the evening with Mr. Franco Mannino conducting.