Tag: Deceased

Arthur (William) Delamont was born in Hereford, England, on January 25 in1892. He played clarinet and later cornet with his father and brothers in a Salvation Army band in Hereford. In 1910 the family moved to Canada and in 1914, intending to return to England for a great international Salvation Army convention, they suffered the sinking of the Empress of…
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Allard de Ridder was born in Dordrecht, Holland on May 3, 1887. He studied violin and conducting in Holland and at the Cologne Cons. He was a guest conductor at Arnhem, The Hague, and Amsterdam. For two seasons he conducted the National Opera in Amsterdam. In 1919 he emigrated to the USA and became assistant…
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John Francis “Jack” Cullen was born in 1922. Jack Cullen enrolled in the Sprott-Shaw School of Commerce and Radio in Vancouver in 1945 after a tour of duty as a radio operator in the Canadian Navy. He began as a news announcer and then deejay at CJAV in Port Alberni, B.C. in November 1946. In…
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Born on June 16th. 1928 in Bucharest, Rumania, Sergiu Comissiona was a conductor and violinist, who was Music Director for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, from 1991 to 2000.  He began studying the violin at the age of five and was subsequently hired by the Romanian State Ensemble in his teens, making his debut at 17.…
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Ray Bidwell Collins (December 10, 1889 – July 11, 1965) was an American actor in film, stage, radio, and television  He started acting on stage at the age of 14, and moved to British Columbia where he headed up his own theatrical stock company until moving on to Broadway. In the mid-1930s, now an established…
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