The Province from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 44

A bridge for Miiderstendin Jan van Bruchem, owner and general manager of Vancouver's newest radio station, CJVB, likes to think that his station is serving as a bridge for better understanding between ethnic minorities. listeners from as far away as Finland agree. Van Bruchem leafed through his files during an inter-v i and proudly produced a letter from a Finn, a member of the DXrClub, an international organization that specializes in picking up foreign-language stations around the Nick Sands, van Bruchem and program director Rudy Heartman. there," he insisted. Program director Rudy Heartman had divulged the information about his knighthood.

Dutch-Canadians may remember the van Bruchem name. It figured prominently in the investigation of Hans van Meegren, known as the world's master art forger. Van Meegren sold his own works for nearly $3 million, claiming they were lost masterpieces by Johannes Vermeer and Pieter do Hoogh. He was forced to own up when he was charged after the Second World War with selling Dutch art treasures to the occupying Nazis. To clear himself, he had to paint a Vermeer before the eyes of disbelieving Dutch authorities who were highly embarrassed to find one of van Meegren's forgeries hanging in pride of place in the Boymans Museum in Rotterdam.

Van Bruchem's father was one of the senior detectives working on the investi-. gation. To show he held nothing al against the senior van Bruchem, Van Meegeren gave him one of his originals signed with his own name. A copy of the painting hangs proudly in the younger van Bruchem's office. The painting is of a pianist at the keyboard surrounded by the faces of such masters as Chopin, Chekovsky and Beethoven a fitting note of inspiration for the young station.

rules, that 40 per cent of their programming be foreign language. Van Bruchem says CJVB produces about 98 per cent of its programming itself and that 90 per cent of it is live. "Many listeners think that the programs actually originate from their native countries and are surprised to find that isn't so." Van Bruchem has been active in promoting Dutch-Canadian understanding, serving as national chairman of a committee of Dutch-Canadians who donated an organ to Canada for helping to liberate Holland in the Second World War. For his efforts, Queen Juliana knighted him. Van Bruchem fidgeted uncomfortably as the conversation turned to personal background.

"Nothing interesting also serve as a bridge for peoples of different cultural backgrounds. We tell something to the Greeks about the Italians and the Italians about the Greeks so they can understand each other better. As well, we're telling new Canadians about their new home with informational programs it's an integration process for ethnic groups." With a background in radio from Holland, van Bruchem came to Canada in 1952, settling in Barrie, where he first put together a radio show that was evenutally syndicated across Canada. The program, Holland Calling, will die this month because of van Bru-chem's increased business pressures. CJVB joins Hamilton's CFMB and Toronto's CHIN as Canada's third multi-language station.

All three operate on restrictions, on top of Canadian-content world. The writer said CJVB was the best multi-language station he had encountered. In the seven months that CJVB has been on the air, complementing its English programming with 23 foreign languages, the station has built its audience to 34,000 B.C. households. The station received its licence by proving to the Canadian Radio-Television Commission that there are between 150,000 and 200.000 multi-lingual residents on the Lower Mainland.

The groups are 84,000 Germans, 54,000 Dutch, 30,000 Chinese and 50,000 Scandinavians. But CJVB's programming is by no means limited to these main ethnic groups. It beams programs in Arabic, three Chinese languages, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Three Indian languages, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Filipino, Polish, Portuguese and Ukrainian. To accomplish this, CJVB has hired personalities who are active in their local ethnic community persons who can interpret the news of the day as well as tell each community about the mainstream of Canadian society. The eve of the Oct.

30 federal election, for instance, CJVB beamed election results in English as well as the 23 foreign languages. No small feat for a station that has only three sound studios. Van Bruchem suggests his station is a family affair. "Parents tune in and listen to music from their homeland and in this way tell their children about their heritage." and an organ, too By JAMES NELSON Canadian Press OTTAWA Two Dutch craftsmen are assembling an 18-foot-tall concert organ backstage at the National Arts Centre for a public debut in the fall of 1973. It will take almost that long for the arts centre to find a week free of per- It contains about 1,350 pipes of copper, tin and wood.

It has 19 stops or tones that can be mixed and coupled at the organ player's whim. The longest pipe is eight feet and the shortest about half an inch. Final choice of the instrument's tone specifications was left to Mario Bernar-di, musical director of the arts centre and conductor of the National Arts Centre orchestra, himself an organist. The stops chosen make the organ suitable for playing music ranging from 17th-century baroque to 19th-century classical and 20th-century contemporary periods. Cost of the new instrument is not known.

The arts centre hasn't inquired into the price and the donors have not revealed it. Jan van Bruchem of Vancouver, national chairman of the Dutch-Canadian Committee 1945-1970, said the organ is "the best that the Dutch people in Canada can offer," and the price is not to be revealed because "we want this to be recognized for its sentimental value." Rather than having the pipes built into a fixed position on the walls of the opera house, the instrument is mounted on a platform, 16 feet by 12 feet, which can be wheeled into position anywhere on the stage. formances and other activities to give Siem Doot of Zaandam, The Netherlands, the complete quiet he needs to "voice" or fine tune the instrument, He and technicians Jan Kleyn have been assembling it. The organ is built by the internationally-known firm of Flentrop Orgelbouw N.V. It is a gift to the Canadian people and the arts centre by the Dutch-Canadian community, marking the 25th anniversary in 1970-of the 1945 liberation of The Netherlands by the Canadian Army.

The Dutch-Canadian committee first gave the arts centre a small organ as a token towards the larger instrument. Also built in Flendtrop, it was used to test the accoustics of the arts centre opera house before design of the big instrument was completed. It also has been used to accompany choral works, to play with the arts centre's resident orchestra and to play the organ part in some opera productions. The larger, two-manual instrument will be better suited for major organ recitals. The year's rest will be beneficial, enabling some of the exotic woods and other materials used in its construction to become seasoned to the Ottawa climate; Included are African mahogany, Slavonic oak, red cedar, ebony and ivory.

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