for children under five
A correspondent, playing a nursery rhyme tune for some -five-year-old listeners, was rewarded with the comment, ' Yes, it's the same tune but you can't play all the twiddly bits like rhe lady does! '
It is indeed interesting to note how appreciatively aware of ' the lady's ' nursery rhyme settings our young audience can be-how, for instance, they relish the chords which indicate ' mother ' slapping Jill, or the piano sequence representing the bells in Mary, Mary.' Occasionally the appreciation is genuinely subtle, like that ot the boy who, noticing how the tune and the accompaniment of 'Ride a Cock Horse ' played against one another, remarked, ' The man is balancing this music.'
This week, as usual, the ' twiddly bit! ' will be heard in some of the familiar rhymes and Catherine Edwards will introduce both them and the storyteHers. Today, tomorrow and on Thursday comes Julia I.ang with ' Their First Pet,' by Nora Cuthbert , ' Janet and the Baby Fairy,' by Daphne Harrison , and ' The Lorry,' by Ruth Simonis , while Wednesday and Friday bring Daphne Oxenford , with Eileen Hocking 's ' Dressing Up ' and Margaret West 's ' The Little Green Car.'
On Friday piease note, our programme begins at 1.25. Elizabeth A. Taylor