I was at Hamilton West and Hamilton East Primary, Peachgrove Intermediate, Hamilton Boys' High. 1958 to 1966. I don't remember school broadcasts - the teachers used to bring in their own records. The ones that most stuck in my mind were Tom Lehrer and "Carmina Burana". I guess my music education at school was pretty dire, but LPs were becoming available, my parents were open to a fair range of things, and the Auckland classical radio station 1YC was just about audible in Hamilton on my parents' wedding-present Marconi valve radio from 1947 with the aid of a very long aerial I rigged up across the garden. I was listening to stuff like Bartok string quartets and Messiaen's "Turangalila" that way before I left school. There was also a very good touring chamber music programme that brought first-rate internationally reputed groups (like the Borodin and Vegh String Quartets) to play public concerts in my school's assembly hall for a ticket price of peanuts.

The earliest record I can remember listening to was Jimmy Shand on a 78, one of my father's. I always loved that stuff but had a vague instinct that I shouldn't. My dad was a great fan of the Glasgow Orpheus Choir and used to sing their songs in the bath.