"Serenade to the Stars"
HE stars in "serenade to the Stars" are the musical successes of yesterday and to-day; the serenaders are Sydney Torch at the organ and a company of singers and players. These fifteen-min-ute programmes have been specially recorded for listeners in the British Commonwealth by the London Transcription Service of the BBC, and may be heard next week from 2YD on Monday evening, and 3YA and 4YA on Tuesday evening. Sydney Torch, before the war, was known as one of the outstanding cinema organists in Britain, but since his release from the R.A.F. he intends to concentrate more’ on writing and arranging music. Torch’s musical settings have made him unique among cinema organists-he arranges numbers as carefully as a band-leader would orchestrate them, He went into the R.A.F. early in 1940 and served for the first two years as a wireless operator. Later he was commissioned and became supervisor of the R.A.F. Broadcasting Unit. In this capacity he conducted all types of orchestra, from symphony to swing, and wrote and arranged the music for innumerable shows.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 418, 27 June 1947, Page 15
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179"Serenade to the Stars" New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 418, 27 June 1947, Page 15
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