A SOLDIER MUSICIAN
. At tho Queeu'ji Hall recently, au nllUritish concert, organised by an influential committer, wiu given in honour of Major J. Mackenzie Kogan (conductor of tho famous band of the Coldstream Guards), to commemorate his 50 years of service in the Army and to mark appreciation of what he has done for British music. During tho earlier part of tho concert public curiosity haa been aroused by a large, mysterious something on the platform, covered with red cloth, Just before Sir Alexander .Mackenzio stepped on to tho platform an attendant removed tho cloth and revealed a, very handsome grandfather's clock. After a brief address, Sir Alexander Mackenzie handed him an album with the signatures of the subscribers, and ti cheque, sand mentioned the clock, which at that' particular moment chimed jovfully. In reply Major Rogaii referred to tho fact that in 1887, when ho joined tho Ariny, two-thirds of the bandmasters of tho Army were foreigners and civilians, and most of these were German. Now nil are British.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 195, 7 May 1918, Page 7
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170A SOLDIER MUSICIAN Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 195, 7 May 1918, Page 7
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