 The tall violinist in scenes with the California Junior Symphony  Orchestra standing at the far end was Raymond D. Bowman, a child  prodigy from Long Beach, who was 21 at the time. In 2 more years, he  would be in the Army and survive the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor  on 7 December 1941. In the 1950s, he was one of the first members of  the "Pearl Harbor Survivors Association" and was a classical music  critic for many years for the South Bay Daily Breeze in Redondo  Beach.