Bombarded With Music at Home and in Town

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 29, 25 January 1935, Page 6

Bombarded With Music at Home and in Town

To the Editor. Sir,-Margaret Macpherson wrote in last week’s "Radio Record," "Women listen more and oftener-the radio is very often their only companion." Speaking for myself, I never plug in when alone, I have quite enough mu-

sie when the family is home. .To put it bluntly, I’m just fed up with music. ‘I’m positively getting to hate it. ’Cos why? We are having too much of a good thing. Years ago music was looked upon as a treat, something special. No one enjoyed it more than I. Beautiful music could move me to unshed tears, and jolly pieces to happy laughter. But now-music for breakfast, dinner and tea! I’m a middle-aged wife and mother and in my daily round of duties enter shops to make domestic | purchases. I’m trying to make the girl behind the counter understand that I want a bar of soap but the noise is pretty bad. Someone is singing over the wireless, "Oh, oh, those Unforgettable Nights." Ugh! what a clatter! Or. it may be giving something differ-ent--the beautiful Air," ' "Absent," or "Softiy Awakes My Heart," but the time, the place, the mood don’t fit in. ‘I’m glad to grab my parcel and hurry away.-tI am, ete.

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Wellington.