CHILDREN AND MUSIC
Sir,-David Lyons’s plea to parents not to force their children to take music lessons was heartrending enough, but one wonders what his advice might be to parents who did give in to the initial rebellion and distaste, and must now submit to reproaches from a seyventeen-year-old--"Why didn’t you keep me at it in my childhood? Now it’s too late." Because it is then too late, unless one has enough application to launch a concentrated attack, devoting four or five hours a day to practice, A lot of people might derive great personal satisfaction and recreation (in the proper sense of the word), even if they never rise to the heights of public performance or of giving pleasure to their friends, if in childhood their noses are kept kindly but firmly to the grindstone of learning some instrument. No beginnings are easy, and perhaps it’s up to. parents to provide the drive that, save in the rarest cases, a seven-ten year old cannot be expected to exhibit.
M.
S.
(Auckland),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 797, 29 October 1954, Page 5
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172CHILDREN AND MUSIC New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 797, 29 October 1954, Page 5
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