The Parents' Hour
"BETWEEN the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day’s occupations That is known as the Childten’s Hour." As the poem proceeds one sees that Longfellow’s contacts with children were utterly pleasant because strictly limited and defined, and there is no doubt that had he experienced the modern family Saturday, which is nothing but one long Children’s Hour, he would be recommending a pause in the day’s occupations of quite another kind. Such a need has been happily met by 1ZM in a 5 o'clock session each Saturday. If the children can be diverted from the "Cinnamon Bear" and other temptations from 1YA, and employed out of earshot, the parents may use the radio for their own pleasure and tune into 1ZM for the half-hour of Music for the Piano, Each of these sessions is well planned and homogeneous; it may be filled by a Brahms Rhapsody followed by his variations on Handel’s theme, by Chopin Etudes and Impromptus, or by the works of modern Spanish composers. Altogether a refreshing half-hour at a wearing time of day, and, as the supply of good piano music is almost inexhaustible, one hopes that the present arrangement will last indefinitely.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 325, 14 September 1945, Page 10
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209The Parents' Hour New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 325, 14 September 1945, Page 10
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