and his Apache Band with Clare Francis
Like so many other exponents of light music, Lionel Falkman had a classical training. His parents made sacrifices so that he could study the violin under Leopold Auer and Kalman Ronay , and at the age of seventeen he was musician enough to play among the first violins in the New Symphony Orchestra under Landon Ronald and in the Royal Philharmonic .
Orchestra .His Apache Band specialises in the music typical of the Montmartre of happier days.