Hyam Greenbaum and the BBC Television Orchestra in a test broadcast to Radiolympia, August 1936
Founded
1936; 88 years ago (1936)
Disbanded
September 1939; 84 years ago (1939-09)
Later name
BBC Revue Orchestra
Location
United Kingdom
The BBC Television Orchestra (1936–1939) was a broadcast orchestra founded in 1936 by conductor, violinist and composer Hyam Greenbaum and led by Boris Pecker. Greenbaum's wife Sidonie Goossens was the first solo harpist with the Orchestra in that year.[1]
It was disbanded in September 1939 when the outbreak of the Second World War caused the BBC Television service to be suspended so as not to create a VHF beacon for German bombers. After that Greenbaum used a nucleus of its players to form the BBC Revue Orchestra, playing light variety music for BBC radio from its base in Bangor, North Wales.[2]
Its successor, the BBC Revue Orchestra, was amalgamated with the BBC Variety Orchestra in 1964 to form the BBC Radio Orchestra.
^"Sidonie Goossens". The Telegraph.
^Lloyd, Stephen. Constant Lambert, Beyond the Rio Grande (2015), p 302
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