BBC Victory For Women
CCORDING to the English newspapers, it took the BBC 20 years. to wake up to thesfact that in matters of syncopation women may be as. good as male jazz exponents, although music-halls have been featuring all-women bands for years. This year it made the necessary changes. It appointed as its Dance Music Supervisor Mrs. D. F. ("Tawney’’) Neilson, while Ivy Benson and her. female syncopators were signed on as a resident dance band. Mrs. Neilson knows the popular music field inside out, having been for five
years Artists’ Manager to the Decca Record Company. She also selected the music for recording bands and singers. She will control the BBC’s four resident bands: Jack Payne’s, Geraldo’s, Billy Ternent’s, and Ivy Benson’s. Ivy Benson hails from Leeds, and plays five instruments-clarinet, saxophone, piano-accordion, trumpet, piano, but does not sing. Her father, who taught her music, is a wind instrumentalist in Leeds. She got her first chance in Teddy Joyce’s band, was later band-leader for C. L. Heiman, who runs a dozen bands throughout the country. Believing that "you can’t mix marfiage with a band," she has remained single,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 210, 2 July 1943, Page 15
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190BBC Victory For Women New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 210, 2 July 1943, Page 15
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