The California Junior Symphony was a youth orchestra that was founded in 1935 by violinist Peter Meremblum. The Meremblum orchestra was one of the more popular training orchestras in the Los Angeles area in the late 30's and throughout the 40's, and many prominent musicians got their start there. The orchestra, which usually had around 80 performers, was also featured in the 1939 Goldwyn film "They Shall Have Music", which also featured violin virtuoso Jascha Heifetz. Many of the kids in the orchestra were used for the casting of the 1940 Paramount film "There's Magic in Music (a.k.a. "The Hard-Boiled Canary), a film loosely centered around the famed Interlochen fine arts camp (known then as "National Music Camp"), although the actual film was shot at Lake Arrowhead California. Both feature-length movies were vastly underrated in their day, and the music is excellent in both of them, as it is in this Vitaphone short. Many of the kids in the orchestra appeared in both listed films and this short. The Meremblum symphony also appeared in a 1944 film "Song of Russia".
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