an article<\/a> in the “Stay Well and Sparkle” series published on DNO in November 2020,\u00a0 author, Dr. Sam Christian, writes, “Casimir was bestowed to Dominica way back in 1918, coinciding with the cessation of hostilities in WWI. In civilian life, he was best known as the proprietor of Ceebees on Cork Street, the Jays of its day. His most worthy successor, Bandleader, Valena Letang, recalls regularly patronizing the store for the monthly editions of \u2018Schoolgirls\u2019 magazine with the same passion today’s youth attach to soap operas and video games.”<\/p>\nBefore taking up the mantle of Bandmaster of the Music Lovers Band which later became the Music Lovers Dominica Government, a position which he would hold for forty years and more,\u00a0 Mr. Casimir was the leader of the Casimir Brothers Orchestra in the 1930s and played jazz and other popular music at the legendary Albert Hall.<\/p>\n
Dr. Christian recounts in his article on DNO, “In their day, Music Lovers traveled in seatless dumpers on unpaved roads to the outlying villages of the country. Oftentimes, on such trips, they would shelter from [the] rain under the same dusty tarps used to cover aggregate. They endured the inconveniences of travelling on a \u2018lighter\u2019 which was towed along the west coast. On several occasions, they crossed the infamous Boetica Gorge on a Land Rover using chains on the wheels.”<\/p>\n
Prominent Dominican lawyer based in the United States, Gabriel Christian, writes, “I appreciate the national treasure that is Hesketh Casimir…but for his life of service in the field of music, Dominica would be a much duller place.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hesketh Casimir, whose name was for many years synonymous with the Music Lovers Dominica Government Band,\u00a0 has passed away. Mr. Casimir, a co-founder of Dominica’s longest-existing musical band, died on Sunday, July 31, 2022. He was 103 years old. In…","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":288218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[301,235,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-death","category-homepage-carousel","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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