(All arrangements by Michaeloff)
A native of Mohilev Pod, principal city of Bessarahia, MichaelofT has done a very great deal towards making the music and people of that picturesque and colourful part of the world known to this country.
As a youngster Michacloff took an active part in his school orchestra. He studied the violin till he was fourteen, and later took up the cello, which he studied in Odessa. He later spent three years of musical study in Berlin, where he became musical adviser and arranger to a large music publishing company. He first broadcast with his orchestra of fourteen players in August, 1937, and since then has been regularly on the air.