Philadelphia has its "Band of Gold' (TIME, June 2), but it is seven summers behind Manhattan, whose "Goldman Band" has just resumed its activities. Edwin Franko Goldman used to conduct his white-winged, leather-throated forces on the green at Columbia University, whift the grinning statue of the Great God Pan leered at the audience under the torrid moon. But that space has become too congested, Now the plangent tones of the cornet, the barbaric beatings of the bass-drums call New Yorkers to the Mall in Central Park every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and...
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