Music While You Listen
[LISTENING to "Music While You Work" from 4YA I reflected that such a session is the thin edge of the wedge of inattention. The insinuation that you may do something else while listening is a bad one; it may be carried over to programmes containing the best
music, and. listeners are inclined to regard time as wasted if it is spent in merely listening, without an accompaniment of activity such ‘as pipe-cleaning, wool-winding, wood-whittling, hair-wash-ing, or even surreptious novel-reading and apple-chewing. Indeed, the title of
most evening programmes might well be "Music While You Fiddle About." Eric Blom in a critical essay suggests that there is only one thing that may occupy your hands when music is being per-formed--namely, the score of the work itself. Since score-owners here in New Zealand are confined to an esoteric band who rightly refuse to allow the precious things out of their sight, let’s endeavour without their help to make certain that only one title will apply to any radio programme, "Music While You Listen."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 286, 15 December 1944, Page 9
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175Music While You Listen New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 286, 15 December 1944, Page 9
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