Items From The ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 128, 5 December 1941, Page 25

Items From The ZB's

Friday afternoon sees the curtain rising on a new radio show at 3ZB, The Apex Aces, conducted by two anonymous people who call themselves the "Radio Man" and the "Music Maker." It is a juvenile show, the performers comprising close on a hundred talented young Christchurch people, and consists of 15 minutes of bright entertainment with a revue flavour. The "Music Maker" is a Bachelor of Music, and has spent years helping children develop their musical talent. The song "It’s a Hap-Hap-Happy Day" is the theme. EF IVE-FIFTEEN every Monday and * * * NE of the important people behind the scenes at the 1ZB radio theatre is Lew Jones, well-known Auckland rausician, who does special arrangements for Theo Walters’s 1ZB Orchestra. Apart from his reputation as an arranger, he has composed many works and is a fine pianist end violinist. He plays the classics and swing with equal facility and has played in leading cabarets throughout the country and with several touring theatrical companies, including the Marcus Show, whose orchestra was conducted by Albert Cvoleman, formerly a member of Stokowski’s Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. Coleman used Lew Jones’s arrangements throughout the Marcus Show’s tour of New Zealand, Australia, India and South Africa. Lawrence Tibbett also had a high respect for his musicianship and had him arrange songs for his New Zealand tour. His compositions inc!ude a symphonic work, Maori Rhapsody, which has been featured by the Auckland Symphony Orchestra and the Royal New Zealand Air Force Band. Among his arrangements for the 1ZB Orchestra are "Fishermen of England," "Song of the Dawn," "Gopak," "Phil the Fluter," and "Song of the Volga Boatman." His picture appears in this page. ) * * * ‘THE band programmes heard from the ZB stations every Sunday evening at ten o’clock will soon be finishing, and their place will be taken by a series of programmes, devised by the CBS Head Office programme department, entitled Under the Crooked Cross, and dealing with the music of the German occupied countries of Europe. They will be dealt with in their order of conquest, starting with Austria. Characteristic national music will be played, together with notes and comments on famous figures in the country’s musical history. Under the Crooked Cross starts from 4ZB on Sunday, December 14, and from the other stations on successive Sundays. Another new Sunday programme projected is The Music of Britain, which will, present the music of different parts of the British Isles.