Police Question Philharmonic Orchestra
Musicians Suspected Of Using State Owned
Instruments
In an unprecedented action, police were
called in to the Mélico Salazar theatre in
San José to ask the musicians of the
Orquesta Filarmónica (Philharmonic Orchestra)
to hand over their instruments for an
inspection.
The Orquesta Filarmónica is a private group
and the Ministerio de Cultura suspects that
the musicians were using instruments
belonging to the state, which is a crime.
A ministerio official was on hand at the end
of the performance Friday night and in the
company of six officials of the Fuerza
Pública (police) asked each and every
musician to hand over their instruments for
an inspection. The official said the action
was to discard that the group was using
state owned instruments.
The egg on the face, however, was that of
the Cultura minister when no state
instruments were found in the possession of
the musicians, nor in the theatre.
The official, identified only by his last
name, Goñi, refused to answer questions of
the press that had been called by the
Orquesta Filarmónica to witness the uncalled
for public display.
Marvin Araya, director of the Orquesta
Filarmónica and his musicians vowed to take
the case to the end. |
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