with Ronald Hill
Lionel Falkman's Apache Band, led by Falkman himself, is composed of three violins, violoncello, bass, guitar, piano, and accordeon. Falkman makes a point of playing music that has an Apache touch about it, although to do this, of course, he has to search farther afield than Montmartre. He first broadcast more than ten years ago from Cardiff, where he was the leader of the Capitol Cinema Orchestra. When younger, he was a violinist in the Covent Garden Orchestra, and a year later he toured as first violin with Pavlova. Now, however, he devotes all his time to light music-a reversion rather than a conversion, for when he was a boy of twelve he was the leader of a music-hall orchestra at Abertillery, his birthplace.