LONDON'S DANCE TUNES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18553, 10 November 1923, Page 7 (Supplement)

LONDON'S DANCE TUNES.

GOOD MUSIC SCARCE. Elaborate preparations are'now being xnade on all sides for -the beginning of the dancing season in London. . , . ..Ho* much hard work lies behtnd he organisation of dances is *-«• fact that in the last «ix moi>tbs_ « men at the Savoy Hotel, have e^mmed no fewer than 13,000 new p.eces of mum sa s a London paper. From these 200h.v0 been chosen for the repertoire of the new Savov-Orphcans orchestra. Miic sent to the hotel from aH me the uorld is gone thiough by the musg director, Mr. W. de Mo rnys. The majority are handed over to five ar SSSSf" who play each piece over on the'piaAo and fllen* arrange those selected for a few instruments or a full band. "At present there is a world **>[*•£ of good dance music." said one of these SuficiLs "We receive 203 new; dance conations a week. Out of all of them not more than ten arc likely to be real successes. . » , "Five years ago a popular tune lasted three years, but now it laels only thiee month*, Iwgly owing to the great increase in the number of gramophones and dance orchestras."'•-•', . • Among- the new tunes expected to be popular this'autumn are a fox-trot called "Bonnie," which includes several bcot; rish airs, a one-step called "Alice :Jl»gfj;.V; and a waltz from "Aid*." " ' ;