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Music gives children simple enjoyment

WHILE continuing to share adult music with our
children we parents can also provide kids with
their own music, at a more basic level.

Children possess an inner
enjoyment for music. It’s
not something we have to
force into them.

Leave any child alone
playing or drawing in a
room (with no radio or TV
on in the house). Core back
to listen at the doorway.
Usually, you hear singing or
humming.

Children feel free to create
their own music and to listen
to music recordings. Our at-
titude and the musical en-
vironment we create for
them is what reinforces such
enjoyment throughout
childhood (and later life).

Almost all of the music
surrounding us in society
(Musak in malls and that
which we play for ourselves
at home) ‘is slick. That
doesn’t mean bad. It refers
to the way in which tht
music is produced. Someone
in the control booth creates
a complicated flow of music.

Telethon

THE NINETH annual
‘*Timmy’s Christmas
Telethon” returns to the
Queen Elizabeth Theatre in
Vancouver this weekend

with 21 hours of top. variety
entertainment.

Headliners Pat Boone,

Marie Osmond, Murray
McLauchlin and Shari Lewis
‘will be joined by Up With
People, Laurie Thain and
the cast

of Ain’t

_Jimmy Rodgers,

But, for children with
elementary musical experi-
ences, they don’t know
which note is the melody.

children music so simple and
non-threatening that they’re
comfortable enough t6 make
themselves a part of the
music?

Semi-slick music is the
answer. It has some minimal
accompaniment to satisfy

by Pat Gallaher

Somewhere between six
months and 36 years of age,
most of ws figure that out.
Most slick music is so
ccmplicated and perfectly
performed that the listener
must understand music on a
synthetic level to participate
and couldn’t we offer our

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Misbehavin.

Format changes this year
include a special late-night
Rock ’N Roll segment from
11:30 p.m. Saturday to 2:30
a.m. Sunday with legendary
guests Freddie Cannon,
Peter
Noone, Buddy Knox and
Mary Wells. Red Robinson
will join Pat Boone in
-hosting the Telethon Satur-
day night and again Sunday

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it retains a simplicity which.

allows children to feel com-
fortable to join in and make
the music their own.

In my experience, a high
tuajority of the best
English-language semi-slick
children's recordings and ar-

afternoon.
Shari Lewis will host a
special children’s segment

Sunday morning featuring
clowns, magicians and other
family entertainment:

Proceeds from the
Telethon help The British
Columbia Lions Society for
Crippled Children which
provide special services for
disabled children throughout
B.C.

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When choosing a record
Or cassette, remember that
some adult will be present
most of the time it’s played.
After narrowing it down,
choose the one which you, as
parent, prefer the best.

You're not likely to want to
play it often if you don't en-
joy it yourself!

I have yet to discover a
sufficiently good children’s
cassette player which doesn’t
use batteries. However,
Fisher-Price makes the best
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Jarger electric one, without
batteries) that I’ve ever
found. It even has an re-
placeable diamond needle
which produces better sound
and lasts longer than cheaper
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As with other skills,
children vary greatly in the
age when they’re ready to
play their own records.
Some have the patience, at-
tention span, and coordina-
tion as early as age three.
Others would still put Jots of
scratches in a record at age
eight or nine.

Society has slowly en-
couraged the natural joy for
music in many of us. As
parents, we can help our
children keep the enjoyment
of music they’re born with. .

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