MUSIC IN THE HOME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 161, 10 July 1930, Page 10

MUSIC IN THE HOME.

It is in the home that good or bad taste is formed. Musically speaking, homes may be divided in three classes. First is the musicless home, where there is 110 musical instrument, no sound of happy song. In such a home musical instincts die for lack of food. No one would dream of starving a child's sense of colour by forcing him to gaze all day at utterly blank white walls. The home without colour and devoid of pictures is unknown, but the home without music still persists among us. Then there is the musically uneducated home. There, may be several instruments, but the music played is usually trashy and the singing is of the sort popular in vaudeville. A child reared in such a home will grow up with no knowledge or love of music. Popular music need not be totally foresworn, but see to it that your children hear in their home at least some really fine, noble music to refine and ennoble thenspirits. Last, and, unfortunately, least numerous, is the truly musical home, where good music is recognised to be not merely a luxury, but a necessity, where the child's spirit is fed with good music as his body is nourished with good food and his mind with good books.