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Show Army Band Plays Ancient Peruvian Music ;S 1(V OfcjjS,, WEST'S v " "" vjwm-w vr !w-5oo"-7t Vk w have T8 - Y s " " l"vf -,.r - f " s- . ! i The United States army band, under the leadership of Capt. William J. Stannard, presented in a concert over the radio a composition from the highlands of Peru. This number had been arranged by Maj. R. J. Hernandez, retired, an ex-bandmaster in the Dnited States army. The musicians in the foreground of this photograph are holding the quenas, the "Pipes of Pan," and a small harp used in the colonial period in Peru by the ancient Inca race. The special com position was sent by short wave to all the Latin-American countries. |