Relayed from The PAVILION BOURNEMOUTH THE BOURNEMOUTH MUNICIPAL ORCHESTRA
Conductor, Sir DAN GODFREY
IT is well getting on for forty years since a young conductor with his thirty players, collectively known as ' Dan Godfrey 's Band' wero engaged by the Bournemouth Corporation to entertain the visitors for one season. That engagement proved a fortunate one for Bournemouth, and a happy one for the cause of music. It developed into the idea of a municipal orchestra with Godfrey as director, and such was the success of the venture that Bournemouth has as high a musical reputation as any town in the kingdom. It is difficult to attribute that reputation to anyone but Sir Dan Godfrey himself.