No More of it by the Manila Constabulary Band Manila, Oct. 21.
Jazz music has been banished from the programmes of the constabulary band which gives concerts three evenings a week on the Luneta, the historic park, the name of which the Legislature woul change to "Plaza Woodrow Wileon' in honour of the late President vf the United States. An order to this effect has just been issued by. Brigadier-General Rafael Crome, Chief of Constabulary, to Lieutenant A. J. Fresnido, leader of the tand.
Thousands of young men and women who have been accustomed to. go to the Luneta on Sunda; Wednesday and Friday evening to hear the latest jazz music which was occasionally rendered by the band will now have to be content with the music of the masters like Verdi, Wagner, Chopin, Mendelssohn and others.
General Crome said he had taken this step because of the eriticim of certain "intellectual quarters" which complained that the band played "street music." These critics declared that a band which hi ed world-wide fame like the Constabulary Band should not descend to the level of the six-piece jazz orchestra found in virtually every, cabaret and amusement place in the city.
The Constabulary "Band was leading attraction a@t the St. Louis Exposition in 1904 and at the San Francisco Exposition in 1915. Reuter's Pacific Service,
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