Ear Assailed by "Amazing Hodge-Podge of Music"

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 30, 1 February 1935, Page 6

Ear Assailed by "Amazing Hodge-Podge of Music"

To the Editor. Sir,-I am in hearty accord with "Ida" who, writing in last week’s "Radio Record," complains of the sea of music that..assails one nowadays. Wherever one goes-to. a restaurant, into a store, to a picture theatre, in a taxi-music bombards the ear. What possible appreciation of music can our young people: have after listening, day in and day-out, to this amazing hodgepodge of sublime and jejune music, all treated with equal enthusiasm and zest? People are becoming grateful to be able to eat in silence. One of Christchurch’s biggest tearooms has recently done away with its orchestra, while many of the leading restaurants overSeas are now advertising "No Music." There are some stores, where musi¢ is blared at one through a loud-speaker, that I now purposely avoid -T am, etc.,

SCHERZO

Christchurch,