Christmas Carols and Their Stories
Puzzle 72 · Carol Services, Choirs and Bells · Page 100 in print
Carols by Candlelight
Norman Banks said Carols by Candlelight was inspired by a glimpse of an elderly woman in her St. Kilda Road home, singing along to a carol by the light of a single candle.
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Announcer
Norman Banks was a radio announcer.
Australia
The country’s oldest Christmas carol event.
Baptist Church
Where the carols moved in the 1942 brown-out.
Brown Out
A wartime ‘Brown Out’ year that moved the carols into a church.
Candles
The candles held by the crowd since 1938.
Fire Brigade
The Metropolitan Fire Brigade played at the first event.
Kings Domain
The Melbourne parkland around the Music Bowl.
Low Vision
The event raises money for children who are blind or have low vision.
Melbourne
The city where Carols by Candlelight began.
Moncrieff
Gladys Moncrieff, ‘Queen of Song’, an early star.
Vision Australia’s Carols by Candlelight (opens a new tab) · Vision Australia Radio (opens a new tab)
Music Bowl
The outdoor stage of the Sidney Myer Music Bowl.
Norman Banks
The radio broadcaster who founded it.
Sidney Myer
The Sidney Myer Music Bowl, its home since 1959.
Soloists
Two soloists sang at the first event in 1938.
St Kilda
Where Banks saw the woman singing by candlelight.
eMelbourne: Carols By Candlelight - Entry (opens a new tab) · Australian Geographic (opens a new tab)
Sources
- Carols By Candlelight - EntryeMelbourne, The Encyclopedia of Melbourne Online (University of Melbourne, 2008), ‘Carols By Candlelight’ (Christine M. Childs)
- Vision Australia’s Carols by Candlelight, official site, ‘Our history’carols.visionaustralia.org
- Vision Australia Radio, ‘2019 Carols by Candlelight on Vision Australia Radio’ (with history section)radio.visionaustralia.org
- Australian Geographic, ‘An Aussie tradition: Carols by Candlelight’ (AG Staff, 22 November 2018)australiangeographic.com.au