MUSIC FOR MOTHERS
Sir,-It was with heartfelt sympathy that I 1ead your short story "The Miser" (Listener, November 8), and I would beg that the programme organisers and others should "read, mark, and inwardly digest." How many tired, nervy and harassed mothers of the present day does the mother in this story represent? Thousands, to say the least of it. In the midst of her hard work and jangling nerves, caused through the many troubles and trials of these strenuous and servantless days and also through lively and boisterous children, to be able to relax and be soothed and refreshed by listening to the heavenly choirs and similar music, what bliss would be hers! What, think you, would have been the reaction on herself, and therefore on the rest of her family, had this mother tuned in to jazz, jitterbugging, crooning, or, almost worse still, the "Symphony on a Steam Engine" by one of these noisy, clever composers? A _ nervous breakdown at least, perhaps suicide.
E. G.
WADE
(Christchurch),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 391, 20 December 1946, Page 16
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169MUSIC FOR MOTHERS New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 391, 20 December 1946, Page 16
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