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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 384, 1 November 1946, Page 17

Sir,-I should like to endorse the remarks of "Practice Can Be Fun" (Listener, September 27). I, too, am a schoolgirl who is very fond of music. I am sitting for my last examination before A,T.C.L, this year, and hope to sit the latter. next year. Just imagine what sort of a world it would be if no one learnt music till. they were 21. How many Lili Krauses or Solomons would there be? It is only the firm grounding in mustc which these pianists have had as children that has enabled them to appear now as they are. Their technique has had time to improve, whereas if they had started at 21, everything would have had to be learnt at once. Music is something which makes life worth while. Children who can play reasonably give much enjoyment to their parents and to themselves, A child’s life without music must be very dull, especially for those who perhaps have an ear for it. If a child is eager to learn, should not the parents do all that is within their power to enable them to do so? Any country would be very backward if it had no child musicians, How many people are there, who, at 21 are able to take up music, with their job as well? A lot of them are married (chiefly girls) by then, and therefore are too busy. Besides young children can digest and learn much quicker than

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MUSIC HATH CHARMS

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