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of some experience in playing music. These men and women grew up in an era in which most children took music lessons of some kind. Because there is a strong bond between the creation and appreciation of good music, it is they who now constitute a large portion of the concert audiences and listen to serious music on the air.
To insure a continuation of our musical life, children of today must learn music appreciation as their parents did, — by playing as well as listening. Radio offers an excellent medium of education and fortunately has made a slight beginning in this direction. However, one hour of Walter Damrosch a week or a limited series of Junior Philharmonic concerts during the Winter is not sufficient to create another generation of musiclovers. Not only is the amount of time devoted to broadcasting music appreciation inadequate but in its present form it fosters only one phrase of it — passive listening,
We need the cooperation of radio to inspire children with the same spirit that "Music Is My Hobby" imbues in adults. Of course the programs for children should not take the same form as the listeners would be annoyed rather than stimulated by hearing precocious young amateurs on the air. It would probably be best to work out something which will encourage participation of the junior audience in the home at the time of the broadcast. The purpose of the programs would be to give children a desire to play for their own amusement, under the guidance of private music teachers. With proper direction such a series could become the most valuable contribution radio has to make to the future of music.
We encourage unusual talent to become "professional" but we do not keep pace by providing outlets for our gifted young people. Radio itself cannot absorb the continual outpouring of music schools and yet hundreds of additional artists yearly dedicate their lives to music. We must look ahead to provide audiences for them, and the children of today are the best prospects. We should therefore begin now by developing music appreciation in both active and passive forms to build discriminating concert and radio audiences in the future.
It is food for sober reflection that our children are the standard-bearers of the future cultural life of our nation. All agencies available should combine to contribute to the essential training for this grave responsibility, and of these, radio
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