To the Editor of the "Nonta-Cuina DAILY News."
Sig.—In your issue of November 1 itis. divulged that the receipts the Last two Sunday concerts have not been sufficient to pay the bare cost of renting the Grand Theatre, When will the Council admit that the present policy with regard to the Municipal Orchestra, isa dismal failure, seeing that they have' to admit that a band esting fa year cannot attract an audience? When the British Expeditionary Force was here, the band concerts which they gave were filled to Why? Because they!
the sort of music that people: want, whereas year after yea Maestro Paci stubbornly refuses to consider the popular taste, and week after week his expensive orchestra' plays for the most part obscure and often unknown: com-Positions to aq mere handful of people, most-of-whom are not even ratepayers of the International Settlement.
Popular music does not mean second-rate stuff. Shanghai is full of people-who know and appreciate good music, and there is enough of the best to: fill programmes for a year without repetition.
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