CHILDREN ON THE AIR
Sir--As a voluntary helper in one of the Children’s sessions, may I say that I agree with every word of\your article "Sessions for Children." Experiments among children for 35 years have proved to me that there is not much we can teach them: we can only help to develop what they already know. In the field of music for broadcasting I discovered that they think in relative terms of sound and space. This, I am gure, is due to the music broadcasts to
schools, which are excellent, An example was the boy who sang from g to e instead of g to d. At his request I shqwed him his mistake on the piano. "I see, you drop four inches instead of three." he said. "I have been dropping three." He then went to the microphone and sang his number perfectly. Another child, when I played her accompaniment in the wrong key, sang it in the right, and I had to do a quick change. Most amazing was the group of children who broadcast a part song perfectly after one rehearsal, and refused copies of the words, saying, "We know them." When we hear singing from the studio that sounds "canned," it is because it lacks imagination of sound, space and colour.
J.
T.
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 265, 21 July 1944, Page 5
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219CHILDREN ON THE AIR New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 265, 21 July 1944, Page 5
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