VIVACIOUS GISELE
W HO is Gisele? Several times each week a singer with a vivacious personality, an unusual voice and the ability to interpret songs all the way from the saddest ballad to the gayest rhythm tune is heard on the coast to coast network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. This is Gisele-and she is now to be heard by New Zealand listeners in a series of seven CBC programmes. Gisele’s ambition was to be a concert violinist, and she plays well on this instrument. But one day someone heard her singing to entertain a vroun of friends.
an audition was suggested, and it wasn’t long before she was one of the Canadien radio’s best-known. voices. Gisele shows her versatility in the very first programme New Zealanders will hear, which starts with an old favourite, "Those Little White Lies," | and includes "Just a Dream Apart," from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, "C’Est Si| Bon," a little French number that com- | bines the qualities of the popular song | and the folk song, the famous Scottish | marching tune, "Bonny Dundee," and "Cherry Stones," a number based on the old game we used to play-‘She loves me, she loves me not. . ." As in| all her programmes Gisele plays her. own accompaniments. Songs by Gisele, which will be heard from all YA and YZ stations, will start from 2YA at 8.13 p.m. on Saturday, December 29. : Canadian composers and artists will be featured in another series of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation programmes which YC and YZ stations will broad-
cast during the next | few months. These begin with Healey Willan’s Symphony No. 2 played by the CBC Toronto Symphony Orchestra conducted by Geoffrey Waddington, a programme of six prize-winning songs from the CBC 1950 Song Contest presented by the CBC Toronto Orchestra and_ choir, with the soprano Elizabeth Benson Guy, and works of Godfrey Rideout, Jean Vallerond, Harry Somers, John Weinzweig and Oscar Morawetz played by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Ernest MacMillan. In five programmes by Canadian artists listeners will
hear players of string instruments and the piano, including the Parlow String Quartet. Station 2YC will play the first of "these programmes at 9.0 p.m. on Friday, January 4.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 651, 21 December 1951, Page 17
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