GRAMOPHONE BAN

Evening Star, Issue 19298, 10 July 1926, Page 15

GRAMOPHONE BAN

CAMBRIDGE UNDERGRADUATES’ PLEA TO VICE-CHANCELLOR. An appeal for the modification of the ban on gramophone music at Cambridge University has been addressed to the Vice-Chancellor on behalf of a party of musical undergraduates. University orders at present forbid the playing of gramophones in punts on the river during _ the May term, and gramophone music has been banned from certain colleges altogether. The appeal says: “Wo have no wish to express any opinion upon the playing of jazz records and the more blatant types of music; but we feel we are subscribing to the body of real musical opinion when wo suggest that the playing of, good music, such as that of the London String Quartet, or high-class music, such as Bach fugues, Handel’s ‘ Water Music,’ Mozart, Beethoven, and Hokt by students in their hours of relaxation on the river could do nothing but enhance the beauty of the surroundings and the taste of the modern young maa.”