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at the organ of the Gaumont State, Kilburn
This popular organist won an L.C.C. Scholarship at a very early age, and completed his musical education at the Royal Academy of Music under the tuition of G. D. Cunningham , the. famous Birmingham City Organist. Rudy Lewis has met , with unqualified success throughout his tours of the whole of the British Isles.

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Unknown:
G. D. Cunningham
Organist:
Rudy Lewis

with Jack Wilson (piano)
Tunes of Today. At the age of fifteen Jan Berenska gave his first broadcast in the days of crystal sets from 5IT, the studio at Witton, Birmingham. Rather more than eleven years ago he began broadcasting with his orchestra from Leamington Spa. When still in his early teens, he gave a recital in the Birmingham Town Hall, playing three instruments - piano, violin, and cello - and he has made a celebrity tour with Peter Dawson.
Another well-known broadcaster, whose first appearance before the microphone was made at the Birmingham studio is Jack Wilson, soloist with Berenska's orchestra this morning. Wilson was first heard on the air in 1930, and has been appearing regularly ever since. He has taken part in revues, musical shows, as pianist with the Coventry Hippodrome Orchestra, and, of course, with his own popular combination, the Versatile Five.

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Musicians:
Jan Berenska and his Orchestra Piano: Jack Wilson

Open-air music in London, by the Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards (conducted by Lieutenant F. J. Harris , Director of Music, Grenadier Guards), playing in Trafalgar Square
During the holiday season listeners will from time to time be able to share in the special fare provided by the authorities in London and other centres for the entertainment of those loyal workers who are spending their 1943 holidays at home as they did in 1942. Trafalgar Square is not the end of the pier, and London's pigeons are not sea-gulls. But the Grenadier Guards' Band is the Grenadier Guards' Band, commanding attention and evoking enthusiasm wherever it may play ; and not only home-holiday-makers but hundreds of London's workers will find new cheerfulness in drab surroundings as they pause to listen to the band this lunch-hour.

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Conducted By:
Lieutenant F. J. Harris

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