Christmas on Shortwave
ECAUSE Australians celebrate Christmas in much the same way as New Zealanders this week’s shortwave notes are given over to Australian Christmas programmes. Melbourne’s Alexandra Gardens will supply the background for ‘Carols by Candlelight," a Christmas Eve festival of song and thanksgiving that has become a_ firmly-established Australian tradition. With a choir of a thousand voices and a symphony orchestra, a huge gathering of citizens will join with a. larger radio audience, in celebrating Christmas 1948, in this way. As a special feature this year, Norman Banks, Director of the Festival, has arranged for an aboriginal choir from the Australian outback to visit Melbourne and lend their voices to the singing. Radio Australia will also be transmitting a special Christmas Day Carol Service from
Melbourne’s St. Paul’s Cathedral, conducted by the Precentor (Rev. H. N. Nunn). The exact time of broadcast for ‘Carols by Candlelight" is not yet known, but will be anriounced at the beginning of the evening transmission at 8.30 p.m. on Christmas Eve, and will be heard on VLA (15.20 me/s., 19.74 metres) and VLB3 (11.76, 25.51). The special Christmas Day carol service from the Cathedral. will be announced at the opening of the afternoon transmission on VLA6 (15.20, 19.74) and VLC9 (17.84, 16.82). In addition to Christmas music, a_ special talks feature entitled "Christmas Day in Australia" is scheduled for broadcasting in all transmissions on December 25. J
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 495, 17 December 1948, Page 13
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235Christmas on Shortwave New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 495, 17 December 1948, Page 13
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