Tag: Deceased

Bob Reid’s love for the trumpet flourished with the Kitsilano Boy’s Band. He studied trumpet and arranging in New York, then headed to Australia and New Zealand touring with a dance band. He was appointed band leader for the New Zealand Broadcasting Service, a position that was interrupted by WWII. Much of his mititary service…
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 Harry Pryce was the Senior Music Director of Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) for many years.  He also conducted and directed music for the Victoria Music Foundation productions and for many other musicals in various cities.  He was widely acclaimed throughout Canada for his outstanding work on many CBC shows – both radio and TV.…
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Barney Potts we was born April 25, 1910 in Harrogate, Eng. He led bands in the 1930s in Vancouver nightspots like the Alma Academy, Happyland, the Cinderella Ballroom, the Quadra Club, Mandarin Gardens, Odyssey Room and The Narrows. He performed in musicals in the 1940s, and spent 12 years with Theatre Under the Stars. Accompanied…
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Polson, Arthur (Ludwig). Violinist, composer, conductor, b Vancouver 2 Mar 1934, d there 25 Feb 2003. Polson began violin lessons with his father at four and studied subsequently in Vancouver and at the Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, Calif, and privately in New York. He was a member 1954-62 of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra…
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Hugh Pickett was born in Vancouver in 1913. As a teenager he discovered his passion for entertainment and entertainers while working weekends as an usher at the Orpheum. During World War II, he served in the Canadian army, working for military brass in Vancouver organizing visiting movie stars’ tours to overseas military bases. Postwar, New…
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