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Spectrum was a long-running weekly radio documentary series which captured the essence of New Zealand from 1972 to 2016. Alwyn Owen and Jack Perkins produced the series for many years, creating a valuable library of New Zealand oral history.
Spectrum 016 Kids And Music is about children and their involvement in various kinds of music making.
A young girl Ainsley, who plays with a brass band group that rehearses near Wellington Zoo (band rehearsal is heard) talks about the many instruments she plays - clarinet is her favourite.
Music in schools is discussed. An unidentified Wellington primary school music class is heard (the teacher is Mr Jones, a Welshman) and a group of children are interviewed about what sort of music they like to play and listen to.
A bagpipes class with tutor Colin Anderson is heard, learning a pibroch and practicing on chanters.
Recordings of children singing a skipping song in a school playground. A lesson with four children learning string instruments in a quartet.
Wellington High School rock band playing during a lunchtime concert - unidentified teenage boys and girls are interviewed about what they like about rock and pop music.
Sunday School children singing a hymn with a female teacher.
Recordings with children at a Ngāti Poneke rehearsal - about 30 percent of the participants are Pākēha. A young girl named Katrina and a boy named Richard are interviewed about what they like about it. Richard has a band called The Evolution Revolution. An unidentified mother of three boys is interviewed about why she brings her children along.